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,…
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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