Poem Analysis of Robbie's Statue by Henry Lawson for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Robbie's Statue that begins with:

Grown tired of mourning for my sins—
And brooding over merits—... full text

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Rhyme scheme: abcbXcdX adadXaea ebXbdXfX gagXeaha dihijXja ifafjaja deXefaha
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: limerick
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 110010111 1101010 01010101 1101010 11111111 1101011 10110101 110111 11010101 1101110 11000101 0111010 11010101 1111010 11011101 0101010 11110101 1111011 11110111 0111010 110011101 1101010 11011100 0101110 11111101 11110110 01010101 0111010 01010111 1111010 01011111 1111110 11110101 1101010 11111111 1100010 100011111 1101010 11010111 0111010 11110101 0101111 11011101 0101011 110100101 10111010 01111001 0101110 11011101 0111010 01011101 1101010 01010101 1111010 01010111 1111010
Amount of stanzas: 7
Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
Average number of words per stanza: 51
Amount of lines: 56
Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
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; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, the are repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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Robbie's Statue by Henry Lawson: poem analysis

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