Poem Analysis of By The Alma River by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem By The Alma River that begins with:

WILLIE, fold your little hands;
Let it drop, that 'soldier' toy: ... full text

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Rhyme scheme: ababccddbbX cecefXbbccG abXbhhiiffG ccccjjeeccG hbhb kkddiiX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,11,4,7,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: ballad stanza
Metre: 1011101 1011101 1110101 1011101 1111101 1011101 1011101 1011111 1010101 1110101 101010 1111101 1011111 1010101 11100101 10110111 1111000 1010111 01110000 1111101 1110111 101010 1010001 1010101 11100111 1010101 1010111 1111101 1010011 1010101 1011101 1101111 101010 1111111 1010111 1110111 1010101 1001111 1010101 1110001 1110101 1110111 1010101 101010 1010101 1011111 10101101 1011101 1111101 1110001 1110101 0111111 10101001 1111001 101010
Amount of stanzas: 6
Average number of symbols per stanza: 285
Average number of words per stanza: 53
Amount of lines: 55
Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
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; or is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words till, where are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word river at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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