This is an analysis of the poem God Lay Dead In Heaven; that begins with:

God lay dead in heaven;
Angels sang the hymn of the end; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccbXcXddXebXbbae
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111010 10101001 101110 11110 01 110101 0101 1111 100110 011 110100010 11 101001 010 10110011 0101101 0100101 00100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 454
  • Average number of words per stanza: 81
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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