This is an analysis of the poem "Heaven" Has Different Signs&Mdash;To Me that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XaXa XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1000110010010 011111 0101000100 110111 01011101 1100010 11001011 01010010 010101010 010001 11010100100 1100010 010001010 0100010 1100001001 1111000000 0101001000 110110 01100100100 1111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 116
  • Average number of words per stanza: 19
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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