Analysis of The Encounter
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
All the while they were talking the new morality
Her eyes explored me.
And when I rose to go
Her fingers were like the tissue
Of a Japanese paper napkin.
| Scheme | AABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Cinquain (60%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 1011010010100 01011 011111 0100101 10011010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 157 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 04, 2023
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