This is an analysis of To O.E.A. by Claude McKay.

Your voice is the color of a robin's breast,
And there's a sweet sob in it like rain--still rain in the night.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaabbXXXccdXd
  • Stanza lengths: 15,
  • Metre: 11001000101 11011001111001 0101001011001 0111111110101 101101011011001 001011111 101110111011 10111101110110100100 01011100101 111110011000 11001001011101011 11001110011011011 111111110010111001 110111010110101001 01011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 15

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