This is an analysis of the poem Heaven For Stanley that begins with:
For his birthday, I gave Stanley a hyacinth bean,
an annual, so he wouldn't have to wait for the flowers....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab cb a Xa bX a dc db XX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,1,2,2,1,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111001011 110011101011010 1111110110 10111010 0101000100011001 1110001011 010111100010101 100100101001 01011001 101111010101 10110101001 1111110100 111100101 001010101010 11011010 11011010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 78
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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