This is an analysis of Commemoration by Claude McKay.
When first your glory shone upon my face
My body kindled to a mighty flame,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efefXabab
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,9,
- Metre: 1111010111 1101000101 1111001101 0111011011 1101111101 1011010001 1101010001 01011110001 11001111111 1001010101 0101010101 0101011101 1011011101 0101011101 0001000101 10001010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
my, and