This is an analysis of the poem The Spanish Needle that begins with:

Lovely dainty Spanish needle
With your yellow flower and white, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Abcb Xded efef XcXc bgXgXAbeb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101010 01101011 10111010 1110101 10101010 101001001 11110111 1100111 11111011 1010101 11001110 1010101 11110011 10001101 00011110 1011001 11111010 1001101 10111011 1011111 10101010 1010101 01111011 1110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 128
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.

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

    The author used the same word do at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of The Spanish Needle;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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