Poem Analysis of There Was A Saviour by Dylan Thomas for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem There Was A Saviour that begins with:

There was a saviour
Rarer than radium,...

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Rhyme scheme: XXaXXXbb bcddeaed fbXgeehX gefXeXhhXbbecdcdc
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,17,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11010 101100 1001101011 101001 010101 0101011001 100010111 00111000101 010101 001100 11100100101 110011 110011 1111011001 1010011111 011100000101 111001 0010001 10010111111 111111 10011011 10111000101 1111010111 1001101010111 111101 101111 0000100101 111111 111111 11110111010 1111000111 110101101011 101001 101111 1101011101 110101 111101 11010110001 110110101 1001011111111
Amount of stanzas: 5
Average number of symbols per stanza: 282
Average number of words per stanza: 53
Amount of lines: 40
Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; than is repeated.

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There Was A Saviour by Dylan Thomas: poem analysis

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