Poem Analysis of A Gleam Of Sunshine by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem A Gleam Of Sunshine that begins with:

This is the place. Stand still, my steed,
Let me review the scene,... full text

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Rhyme scheme: abcb caXa bded dfdf dede dcfc dXXb bgbg aede bEXE aEgE ahbh ceXeXcada
Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 00011111 111101 110001001 011110 01101111 011101 11110101 111101 11011001 101101 11110101 1100011 01100101 110101 01010101 011111 1111010 1111111 10110100 010111 11010001 111101 01010001 110111 101011101 0111010 100101010 111101 10110101 100101 10010101 110001 11011001 110001 1100111001 110101 1100110 1011101 111010100 111101 1101110 1011101 10111101 111101 11010111 111101 10011001 010101 11110011 111111 01010111 011101 0100101001 110101 01111111 110101
Amount of stanzas: 14
Average number of symbols per stanza: 129
Average number of words per stanza: 24
Amount of lines: 56
Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word long at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word thee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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