How do readers know that "the creation" is written in free verse?
a. it uses figurative language.
b. it has internal rhyme in many lines.
c. it lacks end rhyme.
d. it has many short lines.

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?