Analysis of Women Before A Shop

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



The gew-gaws of false amber and false turquoise attract them.
'Like to like nature': these agglutinous yellows!


Scheme AB
Poetic Form
Metre 01111100110011 111101110
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 118
Words 19
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 2
Lines Amount 2
Letters per line (avg) 45
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 89
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 11, 2023

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Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic of the early modernist movement. more…

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