Poem Analysis of The Death Of Fred Marsden, The American Playwright by William Topaz McGonagall for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem The Death Of Fred Marsden, The American Playwright that begins with:

A pathetic tragedy I will relate,
Concerning poor Fred. Marsden's fate,... full text

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Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eefg aabb eehh hhii bbjj kkkk bbaa ggfg gghh ggld ggaa hhee ddddXggdl
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: couplets
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: heroic couplets
Metre: 00101001001 01011101 110100110101 1010110010101 11010110010011 1110011010111011 10110011110101 1111010100011111 01001110111101 1110101010111 1110111111111 111010110110111 0110010010110101 11111000110111 111010101111 11001011011111001 10101011011111001 1101000001011 10111011101011 101110101010011 11010110101 0101011111 1111101101111010 111000011101010 010100001101101 10110101011010 0110101010011101 0111001101111 011100101101 1110111011101 1111010111111 1111010010101 1100110101001 1110010100010111 11001010110101 10101011100100101 1111001011111 1010101100110001 11101011010111 110001001011011 1010101101011001 110100011101101 10101011101101 1011101111001 110100100101 00101010110 1110101010100 0101000110011101 1111010010101 010010101000101 11110010000010 110010111001 110010010101001 11110110011 1010101010011 11110110000101 1111110011101 111100111 110101100101 1100011110101 111110110 1101010010100101 111100111 10101101100
Amount of stanzas: 16
Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
Average number of words per stanza: 42
Amount of lines: 64
Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, his, in, then, he, her, she, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, then, therefore are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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