This is an analysis of the poem The Turning-Point that begins with:
AT length I sickened, standing in the sun
Truthful and for the Truth, whose only fees ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdXcdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111010001 1011011101 1101111111 1111101011 1101011111 11011000011 1110100111 11101010111 1100110101 1111010011 1011010101 1111011100 1111010101 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 657
- Average number of words per stanza: 125
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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