Poem Analysis of The Seabolt's Volunteers by Henry Lawson for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem The Seabolt's Volunteers that begins with:

They towed the Seabolt down the stream,
And through the harbour’s mouth;... full text

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Rhyme scheme: abcb adcd edfd geXe XeXe gchc gdid dhXh Xibi aeie ijfj
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11011101 110101 11011101 010101 11110111 110111 11010101 110111 00111101 010111 01010101 010101 11010101 010101 110010111 011101 11010111 011101 01011111 110101 11000111 110111 11010101 010101 11110101 011111 11010111 111100 11010100 010001 01110101 110101 11110110 110111 11111101 010011 11110101 100101 010111001 110101 01100101 010101 11011101 010101
Amount of stanzas: 11
Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
Average number of words per stanza: 25
Amount of lines: 44
Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words then, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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The Seabolt's Volunteers by Henry Lawson: poem analysis

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