How do paragraph-initial gallows effect a paragraph?

[ReneZ]

The longer you spend trying to understand the text, the more problems you tend to perceive.

I am not even sure that the four gallows that feature as paragraph starters, and the 'same' four gallows that appear in the running text, mean the same thing.

In the running text, the single-legged gallows behave differently from the two-legged gallows, but as paragraph starters this does not seem to be the case. Though I am not sure anyone has looked at that aspect.