Poem Analysis of The Things by Conrad Potter Aiken for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem The Things that begins with:

The house in Broad Street, red brick, with nine rooms
the weedgrown graveyard with its rows of tombs ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd bbdd eebb ffaa ggee hhbb iijj kkkk XjaX bbXa llaa mmXb ccaa eeaa hXnn
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: heroic couplets
Metre: 0101111011 0101100101 0101010101 1110010001 0101010101 0111010111 01100110101 10001000101 01010100101 0101001101 0111110101 1001110001 1101101101 1111010101 10001011001 1011011111 1001011001 0111111001 0101010101 1001010101 1101110101 1001011101 1101110101 1111010101 1101010001 1011010101 1111110001 11001110001 100101000001 1101010101 01011100100 11011101010 11011100111 0011010101 0101010101 1000010001 1010110110 0111110101 10000100010 11010001010 1101011101 10100000111 1101010100 0101011111 1101010111 1101010111 1111111101 1111010101 1100010101 1001010101 10100001010 1100011101 0111110101 1001010101 01010101001 0100110111 01110111001 1001010101 0101011011 01100100011 110011111000 011110100 1001100111 0011110111
Amount of stanzas: 16
Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
Average number of words per stanza: 30
Amount of lines: 64
Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, and, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, nor, and 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.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

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