Poem Analysis of The Bridge by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for close reading

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

I stood on the bridge at midnight,
As the clocks were striking the hour, ... full text

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Rhyme scheme: abXb cded fcfc gdcd hiai egdg Cdad Cihi fjdj ddgd bgcg gcXc ckfk bgggXcjcj
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11101111 101010010 101110010 0101110 1101010 0010101 10101010 1100001 11001010 0110101 01001010 110101 0101110 0100111 1010110010 10111001 11011010 100101 11000011 011101 1111010 010101 01011101 111101 1101110 0011111 111111111 1111111 1101110 11110101 111011010 10010111 11111110 1111101 10101011 1101111 11011001 0010001 110010010 1011101 101011010 1010101 1010010010 1010100 11111010 010101 110010010 110111 1101010 110011 0111110 1010111 10101010 1110101 11101110 111111 011010010 1011101 101001010 10100101
Amount of stanzas: 15
Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
Average number of words per stanza: 23
Amount of lines: 60
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; that, and, as, long, its are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, as are repeated.
The author used the same words i, how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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