Poem Analysis of Long Years Have Past Since Last I Stood by Letitia Elizabeth Landon for close reading

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LONG years have past since last I stood
Alone amid this mountain scene,... full text

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Rhyme scheme: ababcada ebXbcdbd afXfeaaa dgcgXheh bXXhedadXhbcbcbeb
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,17,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 10111111 01010101 01010111 11110010 011110001 0100100101 11010101 11110111 11011101 11110101 01010101 11010101 11011101 11110101 11111001 11110111 10010101 10111111 11100101 11010101 11001011 11001101 110100101 010101001 01010001 01010111 010010111 110011110 11101101 11010101 11010111 101011111 11010101 010011101 10011000 11010101 11110011 11110111 011100011 01110101 110100011 11010001 11010111 11110101 11111101 11000111 11110101 11011101
Amount of stanzas: 6
Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
Average number of words per stanza: 50
Amount of lines: 48
Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
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; must, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, that, one, oh are repeated.

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