Poem Analysis of Mother And Son by William Morris for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Mother And Son that begins with:

Now sleeps the land of houses,
and dead night holds the street,... full text

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Rhyme scheme: abcbdefeghghijXjhgkg ebjblmXmfeXenofo dghgehfhfejefnlnhhlh bjajXgfgldXdXeXejalaphihaghglhih XhahXnfnfgggcmqmaege pihifaeabbXbhiXigqdqlXkanbnbkjhjlhaXfbhb ehghbXmNalbXgglggghgamcmphbhhbbbcjgjdgagfekeggXXdhhh gXmNdkhkbdXd
Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,16,20,32,20,40,52,12,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1101010 111101 1111110 110111 11001101 1110111 1110111110 101101001 10101001 10110111 1101011 1111101 101011 11011001 101001100 111111 111001001 1101001 11001001 101001111 10110111 11101111 1101111 1111011 11110010 11111111 110000110 11000001 10111010 1010101 11111110 111111 1111010 111111 11001110 110101 111111110 1111011 101101001 0011111 00111011 0010111 1101010 11111101 111010010 111101 1011001 00100101 11110010 0101101 11001010 1110101 11111011 110101 11111110 1010110 101010110 11101001 001001010 11001101 1110010010 0010101 111101010 0011001 101001010 01001101 101110011 110101 1111110 01110101 01111110 0010101 111111001 111111 11111010 01001001 1111111 111111 11111010 1111111 101010010 110101 111111001 11101001 11110010 01101101 001001111 1101001 10110110 11101001 111110010 01101101 10111011 1011001 011010010 11001111 0010011010 101001001 111110010 11101101 110011110 11001011 011111001 0010011 010101111 1000101 111111010 0011000 1101111 110011 11011010 1010101 11110110 1111101 11101110 001001101 011001111 11001111 110011100 10101111 011001111 1110111 11011100 1110111 11111101 11110111 110111 11111101 11001010 10010100 10100111 00111101 1111101 01001011 1010101 10111001 1100101 0111001 10110101 00110101 010110010 1100111 0101010 1010100 1111010 1011111 1101010 1011110 110110111 111111 1111001 1010111 00101001 110010 11001011 11101011 111101 011111 1100101 00101100 1001010 0101001 01001011 10111111 1011011 011101 101001001 101101001 1001010 0001101 1111110 11101011 11101111 1101001 111101 1001001 1111010 111111 1111101 1101011 1111001010 110111 111111 01111001 10101001 1101001 0010101 111110 11001010 111101 111001001 10100101 111111 010111 1110111 11101010 1010011010 1101111 11110101 11110101 11001101 110010 11001011 11101011 110011010 1010101 11011010 0101101 101001011 1010111 0111111110 1111111
Amount of stanzas: 8
Average number of symbols per stanza: 857
Average number of words per stanza: 175
Amount of lines: 212
Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, thou, thy, in, my, i, we are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, when, of, who, we are repeated.
The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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