This is an analysis of With Feet At The Fire by Francis Jammes.

With feet at the fire, I am thinking of those birds
Which told Columbus that the land was nigh.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abba cXcd dede
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 0110101110011 1101010111 1010101101 1101010111 1101110101 11111101100 0111001101 11010101010 111010001010 1101010111 00110101010 1011000101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

water, of