This is an analysis of the poem The Heaven Of Animals that begins with:

Here they are. The soft eyes open.
If they have lived in a wood...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcde fdfca cgbbb chbai Xgcij cjbXk XfXhaXekjaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,5,5,5,5,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101110 0111001 0001 011111 00110 1011010 1011111 10101110 110101 111 01110 01001110 1101000 11010010 0101 0101 1101 011001 00011 111111 10111101 11011101 111100 1110101 1101 01011011 110 00101001 111110 10111 10101 10110110 010010010 10111 1010010 01001011 101010 11011 1001 11111 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 136
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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; they is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words outdoing, the, it, and, they are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wood is repeated).

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  • summary of The Heaven Of Animals;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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