This is an analysis of Ortus by Ezra Pound.
How have I laboured?
How have I not laboured…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaXbc abXXXXXc
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,
- Metre: 111100 1111100 010101 011100011010 1010010111110 1111111 1111000101001010 010011010 10111101 11100010011 111011011 10111011 10111011 11101 11111101 1101010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
to, and, her, you, i
Anaphora
how, to, she, i
Epiphora
laboured
