This is an analysis of The Plunge by Ezra Pound.

I would bathe myself in strangeness:
These comforts heaped upon me, smother me!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXbccadb bdcXXXacXXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 8,12,
  • Metre: 11111010 1101011101 11111101 11110 10 100100 0101110 101 11 110101010 11111111 110111 11010 11111101110 111100 111111 11 1101 1101011 10010
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

i, new, all

Anaphora

all

Anadiplosis

new, this