This is an analysis of Alf’s Sixth Bit by Ezra Pound.
Let some new lying ass,
Who knows not what is or was,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbX ccXddX XXXeeafX cefbXffbfff
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,8,11,
- Metre: 111101 1111011 11010 110101 101111 11100 100100 1110101 10001 110101 111101 10011 110101 110111 100111 111101 111101 11011 1100101 11110 100100 11111 110111 1100100 110111 100101 1100100 101101 011111 111001
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 30
Anaphora
not
Epiphora
him
