This is an analysis of Marching Streets by Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
Death slays the moon and the long dark deepens,
Hastens to the city, to the drear stone-heaps,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab Xcdc cede bfbf Xghg aaia Xjaj Xhibi
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,
- Metre: 1101101110 10001000111 1111101010 10001010111 11011111010 1101000111 11110101010 10101010111 110100101010 10101000111 10010101010 1001000111 111001111 1001000111 11111100110 10001000111 11110101110 10101010111 11110101110 11101010111 11111101010 101010101001 10001101110 10101010111 1111111010 101010001001 11010101010 10101010111 1111100010 10101010101 101010101110 10101010111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 38
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