Poem Analysis of Sleep-Stealer by Rabindranath Tagore for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Sleep-Stealer that begins with:

Who stole sleep from baby's eyes? I must know.
Clasping her pitcher to her waist mother went to fetch water...

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Rhyme scheme: AbcdXdcXefcbghfhiXjXjXbXAbdfiejgXXXX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1110101111 100100011010110 001011 01101010110010 01010 0101101100110010 1 0111110011010 1 0011011011101 0101101 1101111101000110 111 11101101111111 01101 1110011111101 101100101 111001010001011 1010110110101000 100101 00101010001001000 011011011011101 10010111010001110110 100 1110101111 1011000100111010 11101111111010 1 11100111001 111011010101010 01011101110001010 1011010 1010001000101010 1010110110110 1001010 10101110
Amount of stanzas: 1
Average number of symbols per stanza: 1702
Average number of words per stanza: 300
Amount of lines: 36
Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; i, must, in, her, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i are repeated.

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Sleep-Stealer by Rabindranath Tagore: poem analysis

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