Analysis of And the days are not full enough
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass
| Scheme | AABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 00111101 00111101 01111011 11001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 137 |
| Words | 28 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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