This is an analysis of The Condolence by Ezra Pound.

O my fellow sufferers, songs of my youth,
A lot of asses praise you because you are 'virile',…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXaXb aXccdXXcdcbac
  • Stanza lengths: 6,13,
  • Metre: 11101001011 01010110111100 1111111 0100110100 1100111001 11110 11101001111001 1000101010100 1111001001 11000010011 10101010010 1011010 111110101 1101011010 1100101001 101110100 11101011 101011011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

my, you

Anaphora

we