This is an analysis of Marching Feet by Katharine Lee Bates.

THESE August nights, hushed but for drowsy peep
Of fledglings, tremble with a strange vibration,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcdaebcdXfgheceXeggefggbeccehhbh
  • Stanza lengths: 33,
  • Metre: 1101111101 01010001010 01111101010 1001 1001010101 11101010001 0101010 1001 010001 0101010100 1101010 0111 1101 010111 010101 1111111101 1101000 010101 0101 110101 1011010101 0101110 0101011111 110101 0100110 110101 0101011101 1101011101 1101110111 101101 01000101 0101010 101111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 33

Repeated words/phrases

that

Anaphora

of