This is an analysis of Song Of The Moon by Claude McKay.
The moonlight breaks upon the city's domes,
And falls along cemented steel and stone,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcaca dedeXaaaa
- Stanza lengths: 8,9,
- Metre: 0111010101 1101010111 0101000101 01000010101 0101010100 1111010001 1011010100 0100110111 1011001101 1111111101 1101011101 0101010101 11110101010 01010110101 10111001010 0111101101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 16
