Poem Analysis of The Bird by Henry Vaughan for close reading

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

Hither thou com'st: the busy wind all night
Blew through thy lodging, where thy own warm wing... full text

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Rhyme scheme: abcdee abccee fbfddd gggg ehhe ijijXhh
Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,4,4,7,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: ballad stanza
Metre: 1011010111 1111011111 1101100101 1111110101 1111 1101 1111110101 1101010111 1011001011 10111111 11101111 11010111 1111000101 1111110111 1101111111 111101010 111110101 1101010111 1110010001 10001101 111111101 11011101 1111011011 1011010111 1001011110 1101111101 01010111 111101 01010101 110111 1011111111 10101110101
Amount of stanzas: 7
Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
Average number of words per stanza: 34
Amount of lines: 32
Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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