This is an analysis of the poem The Feet Of People Walking Home that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXaXXbXb XXcXXXcX XXXXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 01010101 0101010 01001110 0100010 0111010 100101 11111100 110101 1101010 0100010 10001010 0100100110 1001010 10001000 1111010 010100 1101011 1101010 11010100 1101010 11011100 11111000 1001010 110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 25
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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