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

THEE finds me in the garden, Hannah,—come in! ’T is kind of thee
To wait until the Friends were gone, who came to comfort me.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff ccaa aagg hhaa eeii cccc aacc bbgg eeff ddbb bbaa ccaa jjdd kkcc iieeXhhbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1110010101010101 01010101110101 01110100011101 1100101110111 11111001110011 111101001110101 11010101110101 1101011110101 1111001111111011 11110011010101 101011101011101 100010101110101 111100110110111 01011111010111 010101001010110 11010101010111 111010100011111 11010001111101 11110101010101 11011101110101 11111111110101 01110101111111 11010101010111 11011100111101 11111101111101 01011001111111 110111011110101 1100110110101 11001001110111 01000111111101 111101011101001 11011101010111 0111101011111111 11010101110101 11011101110111 110101011010101 11010101010101 10110111111111 10010001111111 01010111111101 11011111111111 01010101110101 01110011111011 1101010111001 11111111111111 010100010111010 010110011100111 101110101110111 11111111010101 11110101010101 110101111111101 110101001111111 00110111010101 01010101110101 11111101110011 110011010111101 100101011110101 11110111110101 111011111110101 11010111010011 11010111110101 0101010111111 101101110100001 11111101011111 11110101010101 11111101110101 11100101010101 01001101010011 111011111110111 11010101010111 101011101111001 01110100010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 242
  • Average number of words per stanza: 48
  • Amount of lines: 72
  • Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, he, spring, in, i, for, her, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.

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