This is an analysis of the poem The Plougher that begins with:
Sunset and silence! A man: around him earth savage, earth broken;
Beside him two horses -- a plough! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddXcXXXXXbXX XXbaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001011110110 01111001 11011001001110011 1011010011010010 1010110110111110 011 0010111111010011 10001111101011111 10 10111011010110 1011100111111011 10 11011001111011011 101011001111011110 11001101110011010 100101010110010 01101101001110010 011110101110110 10 10100011111100101 10
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1205
- Average number of words per stanza: 206
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; earth, you, your are repeated.
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- summary of The Plougher;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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