Poem Analysis of Lines by Oliver Wendell Holmes for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Lines that begins with:

I 'm ashamed,--that 's the fact,--it 's a pitiful case,--
Won't any kind classmate get up in my place?... full text

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Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeee bbXX ffgg bbhh ddii
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 100111010101001 11011111011 101011011001 11111011101 111011011011 111011011001 111011111011 11111101011001 1111101111 11101101011 11111101001 110011011001 11011111011 101011011111 01011111001 111101011011 11111011011 11101111001 11111001011 11101001111 111111011111 11001001011 11111111011 11101011011 101101101001 101001101001 111011110010 111010010010
Amount of stanzas: 7
Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
Average number of words per stanza: 38
Amount of lines: 28
Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, there, our, we, those, and, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word there is repeated.

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Lines by Oliver Wendell Holmes: poem analysis

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