Poem Analysis of Vigils by Arthur Rimbaud for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Vigils that begins with:

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It is a repose in the light, ...

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Rhyme scheme: XaXXXbcbbadb XbefXe cegd fdgg XggaX dXdg Xgf
Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,4,4,5,4,3,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1 00001001 1010110 10111011 00011010011 01 00001010 1101110 0010 110111 110100 10111 1 01011 001101 0010100001 10101000 01010101 01100010 0010100010 0101010010 1110100100 0111 010101 01001100100 0111000100 1 01101 0010101 01001 0101101010 01001011001 010111 1010100101 110101 010011 1101001101 1010101
Amount of stanzas: 7
Average number of symbols per stanza: 156
Average number of words per stanza: 25
Amount of lines: 38
Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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