This is an analysis of the poem If The Heart Achieves The Status Of A Mirror that begins with:

If the heart achieves the status of a mirror
The sight of the beloved [God] is free...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XX XX aX aX XX XX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 001010100010 0100010101 11111111011010 0010010100100010 1111100101001 111101001 0101001001111 11010001010 100111000101 1001110100 111110111000101 10101111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

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