Analysis of The Needle and Thread
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
The Needle and Thread one day were wed,
The Thimble acted as priest,
A paper of Pins, and the Scissors twins
Were among the guests at the feast.
That dandy trim the Bodkin slim
Danced with Miss Tape-measure,
But he stepped on her trail, and she called him 'a whale,'
And that put an end to their pleasure.
Wrinkled and fat the Beeswax sat
And talked with the Needle-case.
'I am glad,' she said, 'that my niece, the Thread,
Has married into this race.
'Her mother, the Spool, was a dull old fool,
And the Needle and Thread were shy;
The result you see came all through me,
I taught her to catch his eye.'
The Emery-ball just there had a fall-
She had danced too long at one time,
And that put a stop to the merry hop,
And that brings an end to my rhyme.
The groom and the bride took their wedding ride
Down a long white-seam to the shore,
And the guests all said there never was wed
So fair a couple before.
Scheme | ABXB XCXC XDAD XEXE XFXF XGAG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 010011101 0101011 0101100101 00101101 11010101 111110 111101011101 011111110 1001011 0110101 1111111101 1100111 0100110111 00100101 001111111 1101111 0100111101 11111111 0110110101 01111111 0100111101 10111101 0011111011 1101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 891 |
Words | 182 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 18, 2023
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