This is an analysis of the poem The Needle And Thread that begins with:
The Needle and Thread one day were wed,
The Thimble acted as priest,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXb cdXd beae fggX fcXc ahah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 010111101 0101011 0100110101 00101101 11010101 101110 1111011111110 111110110 10110101 1100101 1111111101 1100001 1100110111 10101101 001111111 11001010 0100111101 11111111 1110100101 11111011 0110111101 10111001 1011111011 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Needle And Thread;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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