Poem Analysis of How Robin And His Outlaws Lived In The Woods by James Henry Leigh Hunt for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem How Robin And His Outlaws Lived In The Woods that begins with:

Robin and his merry men
: Lived just like the birds;... full text

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Rhyme scheme: abcb adXd eXbb Xfdf ghbh afdf Xhch iede jkck cbeb ehkh lgeg Xihi Xkjk ecXc gafa ihch lfaf XhehXklal
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: ballad stanza
Metre: 1010101 11101 1111110111 1101111 110001001 0011101 11110100 1110001 1010101 011111 11111111 1110101 01111100 11101 100111111 110101 01111101 1110001 100100101 1100111 110010101 0110101 11110101 1111101 11011111 110111 101101111 110001 1010101 1110011 01010101 110101 01010100 010011 11011101 1100101 11010101 00100100 11011111 010101 11010101 110101 01110101 1010001 11011101 010011 11001111 110111 110101100 1111001 10011101 110101 1010101 111011 11010100 10101101 11010111 110101 010100110 111001 0101101001 11100101 1010101001 011101 1011111 110101 1010101 110111 11000111 010101 11111101 1010101 11000101 10101 11011111 111001 11110101 110111 1011111 1101001
Amount of stanzas: 20
Average number of symbols per stanza: 130
Average number of words per stanza: 24
Amount of lines: 80
Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
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, as, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words pure, and, or, no are repeated.

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