Analysis of In a Station of the Metro
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
petals on a wet, black bough.
| Scheme | AB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 00101110001 1010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 80 |
| Words | 16 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2 |
| Lines Amount | 2 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 57 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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