This is an analysis of In Luminous Darkness by Igor Severyanin.

Tuxedoed, attired immaculately, the high-society gentlemen
Stupefying their faces, brought themselves into a room,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXb bXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1000101000010100100 1001101010001 11011010011100100 0101001101001001 10010110111100100 11010100110100 101110111110000 1101011110100 011101010010100100 10011010101001011 010001111110000 01011110111110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12