This is an analysis of The Easter Flower by Claude McKay.

Far from this foreign Easter damp and chilly
My soul steals to a pear-shaped plot of ground,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cXcX dede
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 10010101110 1110011101 11011101010 1100011101 01010101001 1101010101 0101110111 0011011100 1101010101 11100101010 1101010101 10111000110
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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