Poem Analysis of The Fiftieth Birthday Of Agassiz. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem The Fiftieth Birthday Of Agassiz. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First) that begins with:

It was fifty years ago
In the pleasant month of May,... full text

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Rhyme scheme: abXb cbcX dXdX bebe fgfg dadX hdhd XXcX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: rima
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 0110001 0010101 00100101 0100101 1100111 010101 10100101 11011011 1100111 1010110 1110101 0010101 111001101 0100111 1101111 0100101 10100111 1010101 111011001 11011001 1111101 101111 1110111 10100101 11111001 0111001 1010101 010111 10101111 10111011 0010111 1111110
Amount of stanzas: 8
Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
Average number of words per stanza: 25
Amount of lines: 32
Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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; in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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