This is an analysis of the poem The Other Side Of The Page that begins with:
I pass to the other side of the page.
-Pablo Neruda...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX AbbcX bbb X defXcX egXcc bX Agdc XX cbh dcag hcX fXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,5,3,1,6,5,2,4,2,3,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1100101001 10010 10101001 10111 101101 100101 1011101 1 1 1 110101111 111011100 0101011 011011 0110110 00110 001 1110111 011010 10111 01100110 110110 011001 1010001 10101001 11100110 001 011 1110101 1101011 1101111 1011001 1101 011 00010011 01001001 1101010 111011011 111000100110 1111111 1 10101001
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 72
- Average number of words per stanza: 15
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hunger, for, i, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, go, i, the are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines go is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase go connects the lines.
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- summary of The Other Side Of The Page;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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