This is an analysis of the poem The Spider And The Ghost Of The Fly that begins with:
Once I loved a spider
When I was born a fly,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababXcacXdad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010 111101 0101010 0010111 1111110 111001 1110010 010101 0101110 111101 1111010 110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
- Average number of words per stanza: 65
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; she is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word she is repeated.
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