Poem Analysis of The Grave. From The Anglo-Saxon by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem The Grave. From The Anglo-Saxon that begins with:

For thee was a house built
Ere thou wast born,... full text

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Rhyme scheme: abaXXcbdddde aXfbfXadccX gbcdghhd cecdddbddXd
Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,11,8,11,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: rima
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 111011 1111 111011 1101010 1001110 10110 1001 11010 1111 1110 111101 101100 1101 10100 001011 11101 01111 01110 0101 1111 11101 111 1011 10011 110001 111101 11101 100111 110101 1111 111011 1111 11011 1111 10101 10101 111101 101010 0111 10111 111110 11001
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
Average number of words per stanza: 46
Amount of lines: 42
Average number of symbols per line: 22 (very short strings)
Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, thee are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, the, who are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines dwell, thee are repeated).

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