This is an analysis of From The Dark Tower by Countee Cullen.

We shall not always plant while others reap
The golden increment of bursting fruit,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaccddee
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111111101 0101000101 1111001011 1101111101 1100001101 1101110101 1111011101 1011001001 0111010101 1101110101 1111110111 011101011 1001110111 1111110001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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