This is an analysis of the poem Knitting Socks that begins with:

CLICK, click! how the needles go
Through the busy fingers, to and fro--...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaaaccddccaaeeffgghhddccbbeXddccaXiicX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110101 101010011 011100011 10010111 10010111 110100111 11110101 1010011101 001010001011 110011101 1010101 10110111 10010111 10011101 11010101 10110111 010100101 101011101 1110010101 11011101 11011101 111100101 101111111 1111110111 1110110101 11100101001 01010111 11010111 01011101 11010001 010110101 10100101000 11111001 110111001 1101001001 1100110101 0111101011 11011011011 1101011011 1111011011 10101001100 1111100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1658
  • Average number of words per stanza: 312
  • Amount of lines: 42
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; she, in, her, your, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word many is repeated.

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