Poem Analysis of Wandering Willie by Sir Walter Scott for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Wandering Willie that begins with:

All joy was bereft me the day that you left me,
And climb'd the tall vessel to sail yon wide sea;...

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Rhyme scheme: aaXa bbcb caca cXcX deda bfbf gaga haha dXdXXebab
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 111011011111 11011001111 110010110010 11011011011 110011110110 1101001101 110100110110 1111011001 1010111011010 11101101011 111011110110 11101011111 11110111010 11110001011 10010010110 1101011101101 1011011011010 11111101100 010111010010 111001111001 111111110010 011010110011 111111111110 11101001001 111111110110 111001001101 110010110110 101001001101 1111110111110 01111101101 11110111110 01111101001 100101011110 1011001011 10010110110 10110001011 011110010010 11001011011 111111111111 11001011001
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
Average number of words per stanza: 37
Amount of lines: 40
Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, me, it, of, that, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, now are repeated.

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Wandering Willie by Sir Walter Scott: poem analysis

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