This is an analysis of the poem How I Walked Alone In The Jungles Of Heaven that begins with:
Oh, once I walked in Heaven, all alone
Upon the sacred cliffs above the sky.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb deae fgfg haca aibi ajhj cajaXjhdh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101000101 1111011100 1111110011 11010101001 111101111 1101110101 1001110111 1011111101 1101100101 1101010101 110101001001 1001010101 0111010111 1111110111 1110010101 110010001111 11010100101 1111001101 1101010101 1001011101 1101010101 1111011101 01111111001 0101010101 0100110101 1101110111 1111011111 1110010101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, oh 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.
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