Poem Analysis of The Leather Bottel by Anonymous Americas for close reading

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

Now God alone that made all things,
Heaven and earth and all that's in,...

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Rhyme scheme: abcbbbDD eeeEffbbddbbDD bbgghhcbbbXadD ggiijjggffXekkdD bbeEffbbccDDXeeggbbaaDD
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,14,14,16,23,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11011111 10111110 01100111 01110100 110011111 11001101 1110100111 110101010 11110101 11111000 11011111 01011101 01010101 11010111 11010101 111110101 1100001010 0110111101 11010101 01011101 1110100111 110101010 11110101 11111101 11011101 111100101 01110101 10110101 11010101 01011110 01011111 01011111 11011101 01010101 1110100111 110101010 11100101 11011001 11011111 11010011 11110101 11011111 11001101 01010101 1111100101 1011011001 1001010100 111101011 111111111 110101011 1110100111 110101010 1110100101 111111101 11011111 01011101 010010101 110011011 011010111 110111011 1100101111 0010100111 1110100111 110101010 11010011 11001101 110111101 01111111 11011101 11011100 11111101 11010111 1110100111 110101010
Amount of stanzas: 6
Average number of symbols per stanza: 487
Average number of words per stanza: 91
Amount of lines: 74
Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; in, it, been, had, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
The author used the same words now, what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word bottel at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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The Leather Bottel by Anonymous Americas: poem analysis

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