Poem Analysis of To Mary by Charles Wolfe for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem To Mary that begins with:

If I had thought thou couldst have died,
I might not weep for thee; ...

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Rhyme scheme: ababcXcd efefbaba cfcfgfgfXcbcbfdfd
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,17,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 01111111 111111 11011111 111100 01011111 01110010 11111111 111111 11011111 111101 11011011 111101 11111111 111101 11111111 110111 011110111 111101 11111101 111110 110111111 110111 11111011 111101 111110011 110101 11011101 010101 11111101 011101 11010111 110101
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 260
Average number of words per stanza: 51
Amount of lines: 32
Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, thou are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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To Mary by Charles Wolfe: poem analysis

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