This is an analysis of the poem Idylls Of The King: Song From The Marriage Of Geraint that begins with:
Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the proud;
Turn thy wild wheel thro' sunshine, storm, and cloud;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaB ccb ddbXaaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011111001 1111111111 1111110111 1101110111 0111111111 1101011111 1111010101 1111010111 1101110001 1111010101 1111111001 1111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; turn, thy, wheel, and, our, we, smile are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words turn, thy are repeated.
The author used the same word turn at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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