This is an analysis of the poem Turn On Your Side And Bear The Day To Me that begins with:
Turn on your side and bear the day to me
Beloved, sceptre-struck, immured...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaXbbccXXaXdda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111110101 010101100 00110110 1001010011 111101011110 001111011 110001111010 1011001010010 0101001110 1011110101001 1100010011 101100001001 1111101011 100101001001 10111010 1001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 659
- Average number of words per stanza: 119
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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.
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