This is an analysis of On The Other Side by Dora Sigerson Shorter.

What will you do through the waiting days,
What will my darling do?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aBabcdcdaeaefXfX gbgB
  • Stanza lengths: 16,4,
  • Metre: 101110101 101101 0111100111 0111101 1111011111 111101 1110111111 11111101 101011001 1010101 111111111 1111101 111111111 1111101 111111111 10101100 1010101101 1111111 101011111 101101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

you, my

Anaphora

what