This is an analysis of the poem A Spider And A Fly that begins with:
One day a spider said to a fly
'Though you pass this way daily...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cc de cX df gX ge cc fc hh ii fX af iX Xd eX fc fj ij fX bX fX fg iX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101001 1110110 1111001011 11001100111 10101000101110 010011111110 110010101011 01000110101010 1000110010 1110111001 01110010011 01011111011 0101111010101 11101010011001 1101001011 111100101 111100101101 101010111111 10100111110 1010001011110 101110001 111101001010 10101001110 10101111110 0111011010 11101101011 110110111 101001010101000 010100111001 101001010010 100101010100001 10011010100 10001010011 10110111011 101111001 10011111011 111110010010 110111001001 010010100010 11001010111001 011110100 1111111101 11010001001 10101100110 10001001 101101010 01010101101 01010001001
- Amount of stanzas: 24
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 88
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; by, you, i, this, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, seeing are repeated).
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