Poem Analysis of The Mediterranean by Allen Tate for close reading

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

Where we went in the boat was a long bay
a slingshot wide, walled in by towering stone--...

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Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cece fbfb XXga hXhg cici cccc bbXb
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: blank verse
Metre: 1110011011 01111011001 1100100001 1111101101 1110011111 10111010101 01011110101 1111010101 1110011011 10110101001 1111101101 01001011001 11011110111 0111110111 1111000111 1111011110 111011001010 10010110100 11000101110 1001010101 1111110101 0101110011 11010010101 10010011101 11111110101 0101111101 1001110011 0101101101 1101110111 1011011111 11010000101 1001010111 1010101001 110010111001 111101100 1101011011
Amount of stanzas: 9
Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
Average number of words per stanza: 32
Amount of lines: 36
Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The author used the same word where at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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The Mediterranean by Allen Tate: poem analysis

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