Analysis of The New Cake Of Soap
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
Lo, how it gleams and glistens in the sun
Like the cheek of a Chesterton.
| Scheme | AA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 111101001 10110100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 80 |
| Words | 17 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2 |
| Lines Amount | 2 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 57 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 22, 2023
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