This is an analysis of the poem The Turnstile that begins with:
Ah! sad wer we as we did peace
the wold church road, wi' downcast feace,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbccXXddeXfXggfXfXggffeeggXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 01111111 010111011 01110101 11010101 11010101 11111111 110110111 11111001 11111101 01010101 11111111 11111101 01110111 11011101 11010101 11110111 11110111 11111101 010101000 01100111 01010111 11010111 11100111 10010101 11111101 11001101 11110111 11110101 01010101 11010110 01110101 11110101 01111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1175
- Average number of words per stanza: 234
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; to, an' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of The Turnstile;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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