This is an analysis of Seventh Street by Jean Toomer.

Money burns the pocket, pocket hurts,
Bootleggers in silken shirts,…

Browse poems by Jean Toomer

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AAAA XXAAAA
  • Stanza lengths: 4,6,
  • Metre: 101010101 1100101 0110101 101010111 1010010010101010111110101100101111110110101101000111110100110101001010101100101100110110001100111110111011011111111110110001110010010001111101011010011110111110101111101010111010101011010100111011101101010101011111010101011110111101011110101111010111110 101010101 1100101 0110101 101010111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 9

Repeated words/phrases

in, of, blood, and, flowing, would, you, set, wood, who, it, black