Question

mending wall
by robert frost
something there is that doesnt love a wall,
that sends the frozen - ground - swell under it,
and spills the upper boulders in the sun;
and makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
the work of hunters is another thing:
i have come after them and made repair
where they have left not one stone on a stone,
but they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
to please the yelping dogs. the gaps i mean,
no one has seen them made or heard them made,
but at spring mending - time we find them there.
i let my neighbour know beyond the hill;
and on a day we meet to walk the line
and set the wall between us once again.
we keep the wall between us as we go.
to each the boulders that have fallen to each.
and some are loaves and some so nearly balls
we have to use a spell to make them balance:
\stay where you are until our backs are turned!\
we wear our fingers rough with handling them.
oh, just another kind of out - door game,
one on a side. it comes to little more:
there where it is we do not need the wall:
he is all pine and i am apple orchard.
my apple trees will never get across
and eat the cones under his pines, i tell him.
he only says, \good fences make good neighbours.\
spring is the mischief in me, and i wonder
if i could put a notion in his head:
\why do they make good neighbours? isnt it
where there are cows? but here there are no cows.
before i built a wall id ask to know
what i was walling in or walling out,
read the excerpt from \mending wall.\
i let my neighbour know beyond the hill;
and on a day we meet to walk the line
and set the wall between us once again.
we keep the wall between us as we go.
to each the boulders that have fallen to each.
and some are loaves and some so nearly balls
we have to use a spell to make them balance:
\stay where you are until our backs are turned!\
we wear our fingers rough with handling them.
oh, just another kind of out - door game,
one on a side. it comes to little more:
there where it is we do not need the wall:
he is all pine and i am apple orchard.
what does the phrase \one on a side\ mean?
the speaker repairs his
side of the wall while
the neighbour watches.
the speaker and the
neighbour repair the wall
from opposite sides.
the speaker and the
neighbour repair the wall
from the same side.
the neighbour repairs his
side of the wall while
the speaker watches.

Explanation:

The phrase "one on a side" in the context of the poem "Mending Wall" refers to the speaker and the neighbor each working on their respective sides of the wall. The poem describes the annual ritual of mending the wall that separates their properties. When it says "one on a side," it means that each person is on their own side of the wall while they repair it. This is consistent with the description in the poem where they "keep the wall between us as we go" and "to each the boulders that have fallen to each."

Answer:

The speaker and the neighbor repair the wall from opposite sides.