Analysis of L'Art

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth,
Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.


Scheme AB
Poetic Form
Metre 1100111111 1101111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 102
Words 17
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 2
Lines Amount 2
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 76
Words per stanza (avg) 15
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 01, 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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