This is an analysis of the poem In The Footsteps Of The Walking Air that begins with:

In the footsteps of the walking air
Sky's prophetic chickens weave their cloth of awe...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXa XX abXb cc ddaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,4,2,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 001100101 10101011101 111111010100 10011110100001 101010111001 100100010110 0110 01010101100 1101001001 11011001001 1110111101 10111001010 10100101101010 11101000110 011110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, of are repeated.

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