This is an analysis of Salutation by Ezra Pound.

O generation of the thoroughly smug
      and thoroughly uncomfortable,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 10,
  • Metre: 11010001001 110001000 111100100001 11100010100 11111101 1101010 111100111 110100111 1011001 11110110
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 10

Repeated words/phrases

and, i

Anaphora

i, and