Poem Analysis of Master Johnny's Next-Door Neighbor by Francis Bret Harte for close reading

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It was spring the first time that I saw her, for her papa and mamma
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Rhyme scheme: Xaabbcb dbXcbeX dedfcac gXcXdgcg gdgfbbb gbgdbd hdhXhfh icecgdid
Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,8,7,6,7,8,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 010101111101010110 10 11111011011001001 1010111110111111 101 101011101011101 01111 110110111111011001 111010011101101 111 1011111111111101 101 111111001011100 10100 1110011110101001011 11111100101100100 1 11111101101111110 11 1110011101111110 01 111010110111111 101 111001111011111 11110 11101101101100111 1 1111101011101100 1 11111111011011011 111111101111001 101 111001001111111 1001 11101110111111 01011 11101011011101011 1111100100111111 001 11111011011110001 1011110110110111 01 111101111011111111 1010110110101111 011 111101111001011 111 101011111011011 001 110111111111111 11 111010000110110 01 11011101011101 111 111011010110111 01
Amount of stanzas: 8
Average number of symbols per stanza: 310
Average number of words per stanza: 64
Amount of lines: 57
Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, she, that, my, know, to, i'll, you are repeated.

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