This is an analysis of the poem Quaker Hill that begins with:

Perspective never withers from their eyes;
They keep that docile edict of the Spring ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc XdeXfgfg ghghdida eieiaaXa agagijij fcfckiki lmlmncnc mmggbbgg mmggaalooll
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101010011 11110100001 1110100101 1111111101 11111111010 10110111110 10010101010 11111111010 11110100110 111101010100 1101010101 0101010101 10010111111 0101100101 1011010101 1101110101 01011000101 100111010010 10001011101 110101010110 101110111 111001010010 1011110111 11010101010 1001001011 1111010011 1111110101 0101011101 1001001111 111000100001 0111110110 010110101 0101011100 00010010110 0111001011 1001010011110 100101001101 101101010101 0100100111 1101110101 11010100101 0101000101 10110011101 1111010101 0101000100 1101111101 1101000100 11110101011 0011000101 1101110101 1111110101 1101110101 10010100100 1101010011 0111110101 1010110001 1110011101 1101111001 110111110001 110101110111 010101110101 011101010111 0111001101 101001001101 011100110001 1101110101 110101011 1110100101 1111110111 1101010111 1001111001 1100101 11 01 01
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 369
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 83
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, and, of, as are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word descend is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines descend is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase descend connects the lines.

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