This is an analysis of N. Y. by Ezra Pound.

My City, my beloved, my white! Ah, slender,
Listen! Listen to me, and I will breathe into thee a soul.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abc dXdX dXdcba
  • Stanza lengths: 3,4,6,
  • Metre: 110101011110 101001110100101 10000101011 11111111 1110101010010 0011 10111011010111 1101010 1101011 111010101 1001011 110100101 1111110
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 13

Repeated words/phrases

i, my

Anaphora

thou, and