This is an analysis of August by Elinor Morton Wylie.

Why should this Negro insolently stride
Down the red noonday on such noiseless feet?…

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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