This is an analysis of the poem The Little Old-Fashioned Church that begins with:
THE little old-fashioned church, with the pews that were straight-backed and plain,
Where the sunbeams to worship came in through the windows that...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb ccc XddXbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 0101101001101111 101001010101011101 10101010001111101111 010110111101001 00110110111001100 00111111101011101 1111110111001011 001001101111110001 110010101101001001 010110101001001 010010111010110010 1011011001111010110 01111111011101011101 11011011010101011101 111101011001001001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 225
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 74 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 15
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, and, i, us, of, with 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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