Poem Analysis of The Ballad Of The Children Of The Czar by Delmore Schwartz for close reading

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Rhyme scheme: X ab cd Xe fe gd X he Xb ei jk be Xl X ge gc kg kX ed bi bm X eb cX ng jf eb gX cX X nb ii jn me cl ce nb X ga ah ii cb ge mb bb bgXnb
Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1 010001 100101 0011000110 100111 01010100 110011 011111 0010111 1101110 100111 1 11101011 1101001 01001 110100 1101101 1110101 11000101 111010110 10011010 1110101 1110100 0010101 1 1111010 111101 010010110 01010001 1000100 01010110 11001110 010101 11011101 11100111 1010100 1111101 1100100 111011 1 101101 0100101 0100111 110111 10100101 0110101010 1010111 1010101 10101011 100101 1101010 110101 1010101 000101 1 01110110 0010101 010101 1101 10001110 0011111 01001001 1010101 11111110 1101001 010011010 111100 1111010 01001000 1 10010010 00101 111101 1111011 001101 11111001 0100101 110101 11101110 0101101 1001010010 01101010 100101 010100 10100101 111010110 10011010 10110
Amount of stanzas: 43
Average number of symbols per stanza: 53
Average number of words per stanza: 10
Amount of lines: 92
Average number of symbols per line: 25 (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; in, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, they, i are repeated.
The author used the same words and, it at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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