This is an analysis of the poem Marching Feet that begins with:

THESE August nights, hushed but for drowsy peep
Of fledglings, tremble with a strange vibration,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdaebcdXfgheceXeggefggbeccehhbh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101111101 01010001010 01111101010 1001 1001010101 11101010001 0101010 1001 010001 0101010100 1101010 0111 1101 010111 010101 1111111101 1101000 010101 0101 110101 1011010101 0101110 0101011111 110101 0100110 110101 0101011101 1101011101 1101110111 101101 01000101 0101010 101111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1029
  • Average number of words per stanza: 170
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.

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  • summary of Marching Feet;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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