Blue, blue is the grass about the river
And the willows have overfilled the close garden.
And within, the mistress, in the midmost of her youth,
White, white of face, hesitates, passing the door.
Slender, she puts forth a slender hand;
The first six lines of the original poem all begin with a reduplication: “blue blue”, “luxuriantly luxuriantly”, “fill fill”  “white white” “beauty beauty” and “slender slender”, according to Fenollosa’s notes. Hugh Kenner suggests that “Pound judged his English needed some less obtrusive principle”, and instead modulates the reduplication into phoneme patterns. 
 In this line we have “wi ll ows” and “overfi ll ed”. 
