This is an analysis of Flirtation by Claude McKay.
UPON thy purple mat thy body bare
Is fine and limber like a tender tree.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaXabab
- Stanza lengths: 8,
- Metre: 0111011101 0111010101 0100110101 1011010100 1011010001 1111011101 1111010111 0101111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
thy