This is an analysis of the poem Hornet that begins with:
A red-hot needle
hangs out of him, he steers by it...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXbcXcdbaXXeaed
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01110 11011110 10000101 1100110111 11111010 0101011011 111110110010 11111011001 11111101111 1101001101010 001111110100 11110011111 1110101111 01011101101 101110010111 11011001011110 1101000101111 111010011000110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 777
- Average number of words per stanza: 169
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, for, wants, to, your, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word do is repeated.
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- summary of Hornet;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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