This is an analysis of the poem Heaven that begins with:
Oh who will show me those delights on high!
Echo I... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeXXffaaggXg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110111 101 1101110111 101 1111010111 101 1111011101 101 11110101010 1010 1101010101 101 1111010101 101 1001110001 101 11111100010 1010 11110111100 1010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 557
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; echo, leaves are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines leaves is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase light connects the lines.
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- summary of Heaven;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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