Poem Analysis of The Stevedores by Ella Wheeler Wilcox for close reading

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

We are the army stevedores, lusty and virile and strong,
We are given the hardest work of the war, and the hours are long.... full text

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Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeeff Xggghh
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: heroic couplets
Metre: 1101010001011011 11100101001101011 110010101100101 110110100111001101 1110101011010111 11101010010001101 110101000111101 101110101010111 1100110101101011011 110110010110100101 1101010001111111 0101001001010101 10110111001 10101101 001000101101 111101 110101010110001 1101010001111
Amount of stanzas: 3
Average number of symbols per stanza: 340
Average number of words per stanza: 68
Amount of lines: 20
Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, we, of, be are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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