This is an analysis of Through Agony by Claude McKay.

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All night, through the eternity of night,…

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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