This is an analysis of Absence by Claude McKay.

Your words dropped into my heart like pebbles into a pool,
Rippling around my breast and leaving it melting cool.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd
  • Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,
  • Metre: 11100111100001 10001111100101 11011111111001 00111011010111 10101011101111 11010010100111 11101111011101 0111011101101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

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