Poem Analysis of The Irish Convict's Return by William Topaz McGonagall for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem The Irish Convict's Return that begins with:

Ye mountains and glens of Old Ireland,
I've returned home to ye again;... full text

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Rhyme scheme: abcb deXe Xbfb fghg acac Xiai bbhb gjkj daaa alkl
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 1101101100 10110101 1011001 1111111 1111011110 101111 1010011100 11101001 110010100 11100101 101011100 101110001 11111011110 11101011 11100110 1101111 1111101100 111011101 10101111 1110001 101101011 111101 11110110 10110101 111110010 110101101 11110110110 110111 1111101010 111010 11001010 10101100 11110101010 1010011101 11111001 11111101 11110010 100100001 10101110 1111100
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
Average number of words per stanza: 27
Amount of lines: 40
Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
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; ye, my, and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, ye 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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