Poem Analysis of Here Follows Some Verses Upon The Burning Of Our House by Anne Bradstreet for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Here Follows Some Verses Upon The Burning Of Our House that begins with:

In silent night when rest I took
For sorrow near I did not look... full text

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Rhyme scheme: aaXbXXccbXbbaaddeXddddccddccddffcccXffddccdddfggeehhii
Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 01011111 11011011 11010101 11010101 11010100011000 111101010 11010101 10111101 01010101 11011100 11011001 01011101 11111101 11011111 11111001 11011111 01010111 10011110 11011001 11010111 11010111 110010101 11110101 11111101 11111111 11111101 11010101 10011111 10111111 11110101 110111001 11010101 110101101 111110110 01010111 01011100 11111101 10111101 11111101 01011111 11110101 11010111 11111101 11110101 0101010 11001001 0101111 11110101 01111001 11010111 11011111 11111111 01110111 11110101
Amount of stanzas: 1
Average number of symbols per stanza: 1875
Average number of words per stanza: 363
Amount of lines: 54
Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, my, and, it, that, thy are repeated.

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