Poem Analysis of Rathlin Head by Cicely Fox Smith for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Rathlin Head that begins with:

We left the murk of Merseyside, we left the flaring town;
All smouldering red by Spanish Head the stormy sun went down;...

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Rhyme scheme: aaXb CB ddbb CB aabb CB ddbb CB eebbXCB
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,2,4,2,4,2,4,2,7,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11010100110101 110011101010111 11011110011101 111010101010101 10101100101 0100101 11010101111101 11011101110111 11111111011101 11010101100101 10101100101 0100101 11010111011101 11110111100111 11011101011101 111001011110111 10101100101 0100101 110010011111111 11110111110101 110101110011101 11010101110101 10101100101 0100101 110101011100111 110010001110101 111111010110111 11110101010101 10101100101 0100101
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 162
Average number of words per stanza: 32
Amount of lines: 30
Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; we, heard, on are repeated.

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