This is an analysis of That Bright Chimeric Beast by Countee Cullen.
That bright chimeric beast
Conceived yet never born,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Ababbcbc cdcdXeXX ffffcaca abAbefef gghbhb
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,6,
- Metre: 111001 011101 100101 011101 101010 00101 101010 010101 1101010 0011010 10110 1011110 1011110 10010 110110 101101 1100101 010001 010101 0010100 0100010 011101 1101010 010001 100101 100101 111001 100101 0111110 110101 1011010 101111 110101 0100101 110101 10100101 111101 011011
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 38
Anaphora
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