Analysis of Absence
Claude McKay 1889 (Clarendon Parish) – 1948 (Chicago)
Your words dropped into my heart like pebbles into a pool,
Rippling around my breast and leaving it melting cool.
Your kisses fell sharp on my flesh like dawn-dews from the limb,
Of a fruit-filled lemon tree when the day is young and dim.
But a silence vasty-deep, oh deeper than all these ties
Now, through the menacing miles, brooding between us lies.
And more than the songs I sing, I await your written word,
To stir my fluent blood as never your presence stirred.
Scheme | AA BB CC DD |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 11101111100101 10001110101101 11011111111101 10111011011101 1010111101111 1101001100111 01101111011101 1111011101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 476 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 04, 2023
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