If you have a tendency to include long quotations in your essays with straightforward comments, try to integrate just the key words from the quote to make the analysis more fluent.

For example, if your writing looks like this : Firstly, "Through the brazen crash and clatter there went on high note, shrill and sustained, that was like a sword in the brain.", shows how loud, and noisy the bells are. 

It would be better as : The noise of the bells is “brazen” suggesting that it is bold and dominant in personality; the harsh alliteration of “clash and clatter” is also quite forceful. By using the simile of “like a sword in the brain” the author clearly presents the bells as a direct and violent threat to the man's physical and mental safety. 

This breaks up the quote and allows you to select just the important parts to discuss in your essay.