Poem Analysis of Die Taube by Joseph Mary Plunkett for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Die Taube that begins with:

To-day when I beheld you all alone
And might have stayed to speak, the watchful love...

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Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cddcdc
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: limerick
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
Metre: 0111101101 1111010101 1101111101 1101010111 1011010101 1101110101 1001111101 1001010111 1111110101 0101010001 1101110101 11110010101 1001011101 1101110101
Amount of stanzas: 2
Average number of symbols per stanza: 308
Average number of words per stanza: 59
Amount of lines: 14
Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word far is repeated.

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Die Taube by Joseph Mary Plunkett: poem analysis

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