This is an analysis of the poem The Quaker Of The Olden Time that begins with:

THE Quaker of the olden time!
How calm and firm and true,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababccccdedefgfgXcdcdedehbhbijij
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01000101 111111 10010111 110111 010100101 010101 011111001 010001 01111101 111001 11111101 01000101 11111111 111111 01000111 110111 111101100 110101 11010101 010101 11011101 010111 11001101 110101 11001101 111111 00100101 110101 11010001 010101 111100101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 984
  • Average number of words per stanza: 188
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

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

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  • history of its creation;
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