This is an analysis of the poem With Tenure that begins with:
If Ezra Pound were alive today
(and he is)...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeXffdbeXdffXedffffgffbdffafXXXgc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010100101 110 1010 101100001011 10100100010 0100100110 1100110 1010 00101111 010010111 1001010 1010010 11010010 010110110 11010010 100101110 0100100001 100010010110 101110010 10101010 110010010010 1101010110 1101111 01011110 11010 111101010 1110011 110110 01011001010 010010110111 010 100101001101 010011010 101010010 0100101010 010111001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1156
- Average number of words per stanza: 196
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; tenure, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines tenure is repeated).
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