This is an analysis of Alf’s Third Bit by Ezra Pound.
DOLE THE BELL! BELL THE DOLE!
Whom can these duds attack?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bbccdde eeefaXX ggXffX
- Stanza lengths: 1,7,7,6,
- Metre: 101101 111101 101101 110101 110101 100101 100101 01010 100100 100100 110100 10010 111101 110100 10110 101101 111111 111100 101101 111101 110100
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 21
Repeated words/phrases
of, 'em
Anaphora
plenty, ten
Epiphora
'em
