Poem Analysis of Where The Pelican Builds by Mary Hannay Foott for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Where The Pelican Builds that begins with:

The horses were ready, the rails were down,
But the riders lingered still -- ... full text

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Rhyme scheme: abcbdXcX aefeXfgF XdadgfgF
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: rima
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 0100100101 1010101 11010101 1110101 1110100101 11001100 11101111101 1001001010 1111010111 10110101 1100101101 1110101 111100101 11101011 111101111 10100101 0110111101 1110101 1110100111 1110111 1010011111 1100111 11101101010 10100101
Amount of stanzas: 3
Average number of symbols per stanza: 435
Average number of words per stanza: 58
Amount of lines: 24
Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long 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; they, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word nest at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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