This is an analysis of The Lake Isle by Ezra Pound.
O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves,
Give me in due time, I beseech you, a little tobacco-shop,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AbaaXXXaaXcX AbXcX
- Stanza lengths: 12,5,
- Metre: 1111011001001 1101110110100111 0010110 11100101 10110100 101 101010 11001110 10101 1110 1010010010111010 101110101101 1111011001001 110100111 1011010010 101010010 11111101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 17
Repeated words/phrases
o, and
Anaphora
and
