This is an analysis of Through Agony by Claude McKay.
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All night, through the eternity of night,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bccbbccbadXdad X aeeaaeeabbbbbb
- Stanza lengths: 1,14,1,14,
- Metre: 1 1110010001 1111011111 1011011111 11110101101 1100111101 1111110001 1111011111 0101011101 1111110101 1110111101 1101110100 1101001101 1111110001 1111010101 1 1111010111 11011101011 1101110011 0111110101 1111011101 0100101001 0111010001 0101001101 0101110101 0101010011 0100011001 0111010001 1101110101 11010100101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 31
Repeated words/phrases
my, i
Anaphora
till, and, the