This is an analysis of The Rest by Ezra Pound.

O helpless few in my country, remnant enslaved!
Artists broken against her,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a Xbc abd cbXX XXaa cXd
  • Stanza lengths: 1,3,3,4,4,3,
  • Metre: 110101101001 1010010 01100100 0101001 100101 10010 1001001 11111101 10100010 111101 1111100001010 100101 1001110 1111111 1010010 11 111001 11101111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 18

Anaphora

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