The best literary analysis papers are those in which the student cites the text not as an example or proof of a given assertion, but rather as subject matter to be analyzed and interpreted. Avoid mere illustrative use of quotations and instead allow the argument to arise from your response to and analysis of key passages.
Roses are red, Violets are blue.
And so are you. Your appearance does not matter, given your positively confectionery personality. For a less flippant example of how one might apply such techniques to a dramatic text, see my sample analysis of a passage from Act I, Scene 1 of Shakepseare's A Midsummer Night's Dream . And for further guidelines on close reading a literary text, here's a link to the Harvard University Writing Center web site. Let your analysis of the text and the ideas that spring from that analysis determine the form of your paper.