Poem Analysis of The Waterfall by Henry Kendall for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem The Waterfall that begins with:

THE SONG of the water
Doomed ever to roam,... full text

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Rhyme scheme: abcb dEae ccfc adgd aheh iFaf jici kdhd glml mkkk XfiF anon coio inan hdjdXiEde
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 010010 11001 010011 01001 011010 01101 110110 11001 110111 11011 010011 11001 110010 01011 1110110 10001 110110 10001 010111 01001 111011 11111 1011010 001111 111111 011010 010110 010110 111010 01001 110110 11001 111110 11111 110110 01011 110110 01101 0010110 01101 11101 11001 0011011 11111 111110 01001 111110 01011 110110 11101 1011010 01011 110011 11011 110110 11001 010010 11001 001001 111000 0110110 01101 110011 11001
Amount of stanzas: 15
Average number of symbols per stanza: 101
Average number of words per stanza: 20
Amount of lines: 65
Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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.

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The Waterfall by Henry Kendall: poem analysis

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