Analysis of The City's Love
Claude McKay 1889 (Clarendon Parish) – 1948 (Chicago)
For one brief golden moment rare like wine,
The gracious city swept across the line;
Oblivious of the color of my skin,
Forgetting that I was an alien guest,
She bent to me, my hostile heart to win,
Caught me in passion to her pillowy breast;
The great, proud city, seized with a strange love,
Bowed down for one flame hour my pride to prove.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010111 0101010101 01001010111 01011111001 1111110111 110101011 0111011011 11111101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 350 |
Words | 67 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 267 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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