This is an analysis of The Needle And Thread by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

The Needle and Thread one day were wed,
The Thimble acted as priest,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXb cdXd beae fggX fcXc ahah
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • 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
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 29

Repeated words/phrases

and

Anaphora

the, and