Analysis of December, 1919
Claude McKay 1889 (Clarendon Parish) – 1948 (Chicago)
Last night I heard your voice, mother,
The words you sang to me
When I, a little barefoot boy,
Knelt down against your knee.
And tears gushed from my heart, mother,
And passed beyond its wall,
But though the fountain reached my throat
The drops refused to fall.
'Tis ten years since you died, mother,
Just ten dark years of pain,
And oh, I only wish that I
Could weep just once again.
Scheme | ABXB ACXC AXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11111110 011111 1101011 110111 01111110 010111 11010111 010111 11111110 111111 01110111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 381 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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