Analysis of Poetic Eggs
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
I am a grave poetic hen
That lays poetic eggs
And to enhance my temperament
A little quiet begs.
We make the yolk philosophy,
True beauty the albumen.
And then gum on a shell of form
To make the screed sound human.
| Scheme | ABXB XAXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11010101 110101 01011100 010101 11010100 11001 01110111 1101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 215 |
| Words | 44 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 85 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 17, 2023
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