Poem Analysis of An Acknowledgment by Henry King for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem An Acknowledgment that begins with:

My best of friends! what needs a chain to tie
One by your merit bound a Votarie? ... full text

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Rhyme scheme: aXbbaXccdXeeaaXfccccggffccaacXdaXhhhaaggcciiXXjjkkll
Stanza lengths (in strings): 52,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: heroic couplets
Metre: 1101110101 111101010 1111110111 1101011001 1111110000 111101110 1111110001 1011010101 1111011100 1111110101 0101011101 0101110101 0101010111 1101110101 011111011 0101011101 1101111101 01001010001 1101010001 1101111101 01001010101 0101111111 1011110111 110011001 1001010101 1111110101 1101111101 0111110101 1011011001 0111000100 1101011100 11011010101 1111011111 1110011001 110101011 1101010101 1111000101 1111110101 1001011001 0101011001 1100011101 1111000101 111111101 0101000101 1111001101 0101111101 101101011001 1111111101 1111110101 1111110101 1111010101 0100110111
Amount of stanzas: 1
Average number of symbols per stanza: 2228
Average number of words per stanza: 396
Amount of lines: 52
Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, though are repeated.

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An Acknowledgment by Henry King: poem analysis

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