Poem Analysis of All Is Well by Arthur Hugh Clough for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem All Is Well that begins with:

Whate'er you dream, with doubt possessed,
Keep, keep it snug within your breast, ... full text

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Rhyme scheme: aaaXbb cccaXbb
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: limerick
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 100110101 11010111 11111111 11110101 01010101 11110111 11011101 11001111 11011101 01010101 11011111 01010101 11110111
Amount of stanzas: 2
Average number of symbols per stanza: 251
Average number of words per stanza: 48
Amount of lines: 13
Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; and, you, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word knows at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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All Is Well by Arthur Hugh Clough: poem analysis

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