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.…
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
my