Poem Analysis of The Wreck Of The Hesperus by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem The Wreck Of The Hesperus that begins with:

It was the schooner Hesperus,
That sailed the wint'ry sea;... full text

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Rhyme scheme: XabX cada Xefe bghg iXXa jhgh Xeje bfkX hhlh iXXa dXmX hXja ndfd jamX Xfhf gjXj dnfn dkdk cjnj Xhlh hdjd Xfcf
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: ballad stanza
Metre: 01010100 110101 101011001010 011100 100110101 0110101 1010110111 1100101 010110101 011001 111010101 011111 11111110 110101 1011100101 1110101 1010110101 10111110 0101101001 1010111 10110101 010011 01110001 10101011 11011110 010001 1101110101 110101 101011011010 111101 111100101 1101010 110100101 010101 110100101 110001 1010110111 1111010 10011101110 11110101 1010110101 1111010 1010011101 0111010 1010110101 1111010 1010101001 010111 10011111 0011001 010110101 1011101 101010111 11110 111011101 1010101 111011111 1010111 101010101 01010101 110010101 011001 010100101 10110111 010010101 1100101 101010101 1100001 111011101 111101 101011101 10101101 010011101 0011101 1010011111 110101 11110111 0101101 010100101 1100101 011110101 011001 1110110111 1010111 110100100 0011101 111100110 1010101
Amount of stanzas: 22
Average number of symbols per stanza: 140
Average number of words per stanza: 27
Amount of lines: 88
Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, the are repeated.
The author used the same words o, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word sea at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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