Analysis of A Song Of The Degrees
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
I
Rest me with Chinese colours,
For I think the glass is evil.
II
The wind moves above the wheat-
With a silver crashing,
A thin war of metal.
I have known the golden disc,
I have seen it melting above me.
I have known the stone-bright place,
The hall of clear colours.
III
O glass subtly evil, O confusion of colours !
O light bound and bent in, soul of the captive,
Why am I warned? Why am I sent away?
Why is your glitter full of curious mistrust?
O glass subtle and cunning, O powdery gold!
O filaments of amber, two-faced iridescence!
Scheme | ABC AXXC XXBB ABXXXXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 111011 11101110 1 0110101 101010 011110 1110101 111110011 1110111 01111 1 1110010101011 11101011010 1111111101 111101110001 111001011001 1100110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 530 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 4, 7 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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