This is an analysis of the poem Heaven Sent that begins with:
How blind can a hindsight be?
Do you remember yesterday? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bcXccdeXcf bcgcg Xaec dXcef fcccXfee XX dgfXf XXXXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,5,4,5,8,2,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1110110 11010101 101011 01011 01111 010100110 1111 110010111 1100110 11101110010 1111 1001101 010001101 0100001 1111011101 1110101 11010111100 11110111 110111101 10110010101 10101001010 110111100 100101110 11001110101 1010001000 111001 011100101 0100100101 0111 10100011100 00100101 00111110 110101 1 1010111100011 010 10100101010 1101 1010111010010 1001 1 1 1010 1111100010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, uh are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase uh connects the lines.
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- summary of Heaven Sent;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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