This is an analysis of Lizard at Pompeii by Babette Deutsch.
Little finger of fiery green, it
flickers over stone. Waits…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXXaX bbccXXXa
- Stanza lengths: 5,8,
- Metre: 1010010010 101011 00111 10100 01 1110111101 1011101111 11011101 1111 11011100101 11101101101 001011101100 111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 13