Poem Analysis of The Artilleryman's Vision by Walt Whitman for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem The Artilleryman's Vision that begins with:

WHILE my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long,
And my head on the pillow rests at home, and the vacant midnight... full text

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Rhyme scheme: abcdbefdXecdgXceXcXXdbfhieifjhhcdgjdXcXeajceg
Stanza lengths (in strings): 45,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11111111001011101 1111010111101011 10 1101010111110 10110 10011110101010011 001010111010001 0100011110001110 010011 1101001001001111111 00101 110101010111110 1110111 0110111011011 1100101010 10110100011001011 011 010110010010110 0110101101101010 011 10100111101111001010 01 11110100100100110 101010101 11011101001010111 01 110101011011101 0101 1011110110101101 101 1010101011001011 100100 1011010010110110 100111001 11001001011110100 1010100011011100 10111 1100100010010010100 1001010110 0101011101010111 1110011100 111101100111011 00100110101110010 101101111 1110011110101010
Amount of stanzas: 1
Average number of symbols per stanza: 2528
Average number of words per stanza: 401
Amount of lines: 45
Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
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, my, t, i, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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