This is an analysis of the poem Our Little Needs that begins with:
A LITTLE more of loving, a little less of pain,
A little more of sunshine, a little less of rain;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eefF ggXc hhfF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101010010101 0101011010101 0101010010101 1111110010011 0101010110101 01010100110011 0101010010101 0101010110001 0101010010101 0101010010101 0101010110101 1101110001101 0101010110101 01010101101001 0101010010101 0101010010101 0101010010101 1111111111101 0101010110001 1101110001101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, little, more, less are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Our Little Needs;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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