This is an analysis of Villanelle: The Psychological Hour by Ezra Pound.
I had over prepared the event,
that much was ominous.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Abcbd EF agXd XahdXXaiA EF adjj Xgai hbh XaX fX cXjaX
- Stanza lengths: 5,2,4,9,2,4,4,3,3,2,5,
- Metre: 111001001 111100 010101 11111011 111111010 1001101 1110110 111001 1101010 11110010 01010010 1010100100 01001011 0110010 111110110 1111 111101 10101001 111 111001001 1001101 1110110 11010010 111011 011111110 111001 1000110100 1011011 110101 110101 11111110 1101011 11110 1011101 011 0101000 1011001 11011100 101101 11010 110011 1001011 1011110100
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 45
Repeated words/phrases
so, friends
Anaphora
i, so, the, no
