This is an analysis of August by Elinor Morton Wylie.
Why should this Negro insolently stride
Down the red noonday on such noiseless feet?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdecde
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 1101010001 10110111001 100101011 1101001011 1101010101 100100001 10110010101 1101011101 1111010111 0111010111 1111010011 1011110101 1111010101 1101000101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14