Analysis of The Wild Goat
Claude McKay 1889 (Clarendon Parish) – 1948 (Chicago)
O you would clothe me in silken frocks
And house me from the cold,
And bind with bright bands my glossy locks,
And buy me chains of gold;
And give me--meekly to do my will--
The hapless sons of men:--
But the wild goat bounding on the barren hill
Droops in the grassy pen.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 111110101 011101 011111101 011111 011101111 010111 10111010101 100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 280 |
Words | 57 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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