Poem Analysis of Dominion by Clark Ashton Smith for close reading

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

Empress of all my life, it is not known to thee
What hidden world thou holdest evermore in fee;...

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Rhyme scheme: aab ccb ddc eec ffX ccX ggb gXb XXX aXf
Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 100111001101 110111010101 11010101111 101101110101 110001100111 100100110101 111101101101 110101110001 110011110001 1101111011001 010111011011 11010111011001 110101010011 1011100101101 10101001110100 11101011101 111101010101 101111010100 1001011100111 11001001101001 1011010110110 111101110001 010101010100 1011111100110 110111101110 110101101100 1011000100100 010101101111 1001100110100 0111010011111
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 152
Average number of words per stanza: 27
Amount of lines: 30
Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
The author used the same word though at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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Dominion by Clark Ashton Smith: poem analysis

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