Analysis of Black Slippers: Bellotti
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
At the table beyond us
With her little suede slippers off,
With her white-stocking'd feet
Carefully kept from the floor by a napkin,
She converses:
The gurgling Italian lady on the other side of the
restaurant
Replies with a certain hauteur,
But I await with patience,
To see how Celestine will re-enter her slippers.
She re-enters them with a groan.
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010011 10101101 10111 10011011010 1100 0100010101010110 10 0110101 1101110 11100101110010 11101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 374 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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