This is an analysis of The Lynching by Claude McKay.
His Spirit in smoke ascended to high heaven.
His father, by the cruelest way of pain,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaabccbdaadee
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 010010100110 0101010101 11010010101 01010111010 1101110101 0101110101 11111101011 11000100101 1111011101 0101010001 01010111001 1100010101 1101101000 1101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
his
Anaphora
his, the
