Analysis of Alba
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
As cool as the pale wet leaves
Tof lily-of-the-valley
She lay beside me in the dawn.
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 1110111 1101010 11011001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 97 |
| Words | 18 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 65 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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