This is an analysis of Banking Coal by Jean Toomer.
Whoever it was who brought the first wood and coal
To start the Fire, did his part well;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXabcX XdadefXXeXbdccfa
- Stanza lengths: 7,16,
- Metre: 010011101111 010100011 1111010001 11010101011 0111010101 1111001001 11010101 110101100 1101111101 1100010101 1101011001 110101010 10101010111 1011101011 01000101010101 11111111 01010101111101 1010100110110 110101010111 11101111111 01010011001 010111111101 1101011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 23
Repeated words/phrases
to, wood
