Analysis of Our Contemporaries
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
When the Taihaitian princess
Heard that he had decided,
She rushed out into the sunlight and swarmed up a
cocoanut palm tree,
But he returned to this island
And wrote ninety Petrarchan sonnets.
Scheme | XXXX XX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110 111110 11101010110 111 11011110 0110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 196 |
Words | 35 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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