Possible Clues:

• Like poet's feet caught in crashing chariot
• Like poet's feet caught in wreckage of chariot
• Like Hiawatha's feet
• Like some verse forms
• Chair and cot knocked over with feet being the long and the short of it
• Like some poet's feet, confined at first to chair, restless
• Running regularly, like Lizzie Borden's feet
• Chaotic run, jogging with feet