Poem Analysis of The Lesson by Rose Terry Cooke for close reading

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

Flutter thy new wings lightly,
Poor, fearful little bird!... full text

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Rhyme scheme: ababb cdcdX eeeee cfcff XeXeeXccccc
Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,11,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1011110 110101 1111110 1111 1101011000111 1101010 110101 1011110 111101 110101111111 1011111 111111 0101111 111101 011101110001 1001110 110101 1111010 0100101 1001001010101 0101010 111101 0011100 010101 111101010111 1111010 110101 1111010 111101 1111110101001
Amount of stanzas: 6
Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
Average number of words per stanza: 30
Amount of lines: 30
Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; not is repeated.

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The Lesson by Rose Terry Cooke: poem analysis

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