This is an analysis of The Feet Of People Walking Home by Emily Dickinson.

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The feet of people walking home…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X XXaXXbXb XXcXXXcX XXXXXXXa
  • Stanza lengths: 1,8,8,8,
  • 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
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 25

Anaphora

the, whose, my