Analysis of Coda
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
O My songs,
Why do you look so eagerly and so curiously into
people's faces,
Will you find your lost dead among them?
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111 1111110001100001 1010 111111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 122 |
| Words | 25 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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