Poem Analysis of A Birthday Song. To S. G. by Sidney Lanier for close reading

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For ever wave, for ever float and shine
Before my yearning eyes, oh! dream of mine... full text

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Rhyme scheme: aaa bbX ccc ddX eee bbb ddd bbb ddX fffXbbb
Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: heroic couplets
Metre: 1101110111 0111011101 0111111101 0101110101 1001011101 10010101100 0111010100 1101011111 10111010111 1111110101 1011010101 1111111110 1101110101 10001010001 1110010101 11110101010 11110001010 11011111010 1101011111 1101111111 1111111011 1010111010011 1011111101 1101010101 10111010111 0101010111 11110101010 1111010101 1111010101 0111000101 1011111101 1101010101 1101010101
Amount of stanzas: 11
Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
Average number of words per stanza: 25
Amount of lines: 33
Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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