This is an analysis of the poem Post Mortem Conspectu that begins with:
A brown, fat babe sitting in the lotus,
And you were glad and laughing...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: cinquain
- Metre: 0111100010 1101110 00101001 000010010 110001011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 5
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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