This is an analysis of the poem Heaven Above, Heaven Below that begins with:
Night opens wide the burning Macrocosm,-
And heaven's hierarchies come into view...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXab baXb cca bXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101010100 1101101001 10101101001 10100101011 1010101010011 1101010010011 101111100010 011011101 10010100110010 1001010101010 0110101011 11110011 10010010101 10110010100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word there is repeated.
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- summary of Heaven Above, Heaven Below;
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