This is an analysis of the poem How Many Times These Low Feet Staggered that begins with:

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How many times these low feet staggered—... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXX XXXX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 11011111000 1001001110 10011010100 100110101 101100001100 10011001010 100100010 100100000010 101100010100 10000011010100 10011100100 1001000001000
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 146
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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