This is an analysis of The Needle by Ezra Pound.
Come, or the stellar tide will slip away.
Eastward avoid the hour of its decline,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abc dbdcaXa XXeXe
- Stanza lengths: 3,7,5,
- Metre: 1101010101 10010100001 1101010011 11110100010 1111111111 1101010 1111110101 1101010100 11110111010 0110101101 01001111100 11110100110 01 101101 01011001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 15
Anaphora
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