This is an analysis of the poem One Hour Ater The Dance Of Death that begins with:

I lay in the abyss, where twisting squeezing
The lowest form of life pushed itself peristaltically....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaX aXXb XXX bXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11000111010 010101101100000 110011011101 1101111010010 010110011010 1101101101011 0101010001010 010111001000010 11110101001001 11000101011 1010101100010 111101100101101 1111011001011 11100011001010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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.

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