This is an analysis of the poem How Far Is It To Heaven? that begins with:
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How far is it to Heaven?... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: X XXXa XXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 1100010 1111010 01010101 110100 110001 1111010 1111010 010100
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 70
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 9
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; far is repeated.
The author used the same word how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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