Analysis of Society
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
The family position was waning,
And on this account the little Aurelia,
Who had laughed on eighteen summers,
Now bears the palsied contact of Phidippus.
| Scheme | ABCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0100010110 011010101 11110110 1101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 157 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 17, 2023
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