Poem Analysis of Elegiac Stanzas Suggested By A Picture Of Peele Castle by William Wordsworth for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Elegiac Stanzas Suggested By A Picture Of Peele Castle that begins with:

. I was thy neighbour once, thou rugged Pile!
Four summer weeks I dwelt in sight of thee:... full text

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Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbdede fgfg ahah iiii ejej kfkf caca fifi fcfc acac gege ififXcici
Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: blank verse
Metre: 1111011101 1101110101 11110011101 1111010101 1101110101 1111011101 10011110111 0101010101 1011010111 1111010111 1111010101 110010001101 1101100101 00111111101 0111011111 0101010101 1111011101 0101110000 0101111101 1101010101 1111010101 01000100010 0101010101 01010101010 0101000101 1001001111 1101010101 1101010101 1001010011 1101111111 11010101001 0111111001 1101101111 1101000101 01001110101 01011100011 1101011101 0101101110 0100110101 0111110101 1101111001 0111011101 0101111101 0101011101 11010011111 1100010101 1111000101 0101010001 1011010101 1101010101 100001010011 0100110101 1111011101 1001110001 1100010001 0001111101 1101011101 1101010001 1111110111 1011110111
Amount of stanzas: 13
Average number of symbols per stanza: 205
Average number of words per stanza: 38
Amount of lines: 60
Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, so, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words so, the, of, such, a, this are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase well connects the lines.

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