This is an analysis of The Quaker Of The Olden Time by John Greenleaf Whittier.

THE Quaker of the olden time!
How calm and firm and true,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababccccdedefgfgXcdcdedehbhbijij
  • Stanza lengths: 32,
  • 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
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 32

Repeated words/phrases

and, of, by, that, to

Anaphora

the, he, that