This is an analysis of Piccadilly by Ezra Pound.

Beautiful, tragical faces—
Ye that were whole, and are so sunken;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXbC XXbcaC
  • Stanza lengths: 5,6,
  • Metre: 10010010 110111110 1111111101 11110110 110101 110101011010 0101010 11110100011111 1111001010 110101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 10

Repeated words/phrases

ye, that, and