Poem Analysis of The Poet by Lucy Maud Montgomery for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem The Poet that begins with:

There was strength in him and the weak won freely from it,
There was an infinite pity, and hard hearts grew soft thereby,... full text

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Rhyme scheme: Xaba Xcdc Xebe Xdbd
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1110110111000 111100101111111 111110011010 111101110101 00111001010 1110110101101 01011111001010 0101110011101 010100111001010 010111111101 1010111101110 101010011101 11001001101001110 10110010100111 1100111010010010 1100111011011101
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 230
Average number of words per stanza: 44
Amount of lines: 16
Average number of symbols per line: 57 (very long strings)
Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, there, his, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there, his, and are repeated.
The author used the same word his at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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