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...

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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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