This is an analysis of For A Poet by Countee Cullen.
I have wrapped my dreams in a silken cloth,
And laid them away in a box of gold;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ABaAXbAB
- Stanza lengths: 8,
- Metre: 1111100101 1100100101 110101001 1111100101 1111111101 110111111 1111100101 1100100101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: ottava rima
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
in, i
Anaphora
i