Poem Analysis of For Thee by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem For Thee that begins with:

What woes are there
I would not choose to bear... full text

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Rhyme scheme: aabbacCC dddddcCC ddeedcCC ffggfcCC hhddhcCC aaiXacCC ffeeXcCC iijjicCC jjggjcCCXfffffcCC
Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1111 111101 1111 100101 0101011101 110101 1010 11 0111 1101001 01101 101111 0101110011 011101 1010 11 0101 011101 1111 111101 1101011101 010101 1010 11 0101 110101 0101 111101 1101000111 110101 1010 11 1011 1101111 0101 111101 1101011111 100101 1010 11 1011 010111 1101 1100010 1101110101 110101 1010 11 1011 011101 1001 110111 1101011110 100101 1010 11 1101 101111 1101 1100101 1101100111 110101 1010 11 0101 111101 1101 1101101 0001011111 111111 1010 11 1101 110101 1101 101101 1101110111 1111011 1010 11
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
Average number of words per stanza: 37
Amount of lines: 80
Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word where is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word thee at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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For Thee by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt: poem analysis

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