This is an analysis of Alfonso, Dressing To Wait At Table by Claude McKay.
Alfonso is a handsome bronze-hued lad
Of subtly-changing and surprising parts;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cccX cXXX XcXX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1100010111 01001010101 0111110111 0101010101 1001011101 11010111010 11001010001 11000101010 1001010101 1101111101 1111010111 1101010111 11110100111 11011111010 1110011100 010110001000
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Anaphora
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