Poem Analysis of To Jessica, Gone Back To The City by Ellis Parker Butler for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem To Jessica, Gone Back To The City that begins with:

Sence fair Jessica hez left us
Seems ez ef she hed bereft us,... full text

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Rhyme scheme: aaXbccdd XeXdccff bXXXbXgg eeXXhhXf iieh
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,4,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11100111 11111011 11111110 11101110 0011110 1110011 1010111 1010111 11111110 10111110 11101100 11101010 1111111 11100111 11111110 11100010 10101110 11111110 10111010 11101110 1011101 11100110 1111011 1010001 11101010 1111110 11111010 11100010 1111101 1110001 11111011 1011010 1010111 0110111 1111110 11111111
Amount of stanzas: 5
Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
Average number of words per stanza: 45
Amount of lines: 36
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; she, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word an is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us is repeated).

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