This is an analysis of Coitus by Ezra Pound.

The gilded phaloi of the crocuses
are thrusting at the spring air.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaXXXb Xb
  • Stanza lengths: 7,2,
  • Metre: 0101000100 11010011 1011011 100100100 0010100011 11110010 10111011 0100101 01011010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 9

Repeated words/phrases

of

Anaphora

the