This is an analysis of Exhortation: Summer 1919 by Claude McKay.
Through the pregnant universe rumbles life's terrific thunder,
And Earth's bowels quake with terror; strange and terrible storms break,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXa BCCBcCBcC babaXBCCBcCBcC
- Stanza lengths: 4,9,14,
- Metre: 101010110101010 111010101110011 1010101010101100 100110101110101 0010111000111010 10101010101 11101110101 1011101110101110 111110101001 10101010111 1011100110111010 11101011100 10100011111 1010111010101110 10001011110101 0010101010101010 11101011010001 0010111000111010 10101010101 11101110101 1011101110101110 111110101001 10101010111 1011100110111010 11101011100 10100011111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 26
Repeated words/phrases
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