Analysis of Dance Figure
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
For the Marriage in Cana of Galilee
Dark-eyed,
O woman of my dreams,
Ivory sandalled,
There is none like thee among the dancers,
None with swift feet.
I have not found thee in the tents,
In the broken darkness.
I have not found thee at the well-head
Among the women with pitchers.
Thine arms are as a young sapling under the bark;
Thy face as a river with lights.
White as an almond are thy shoulders;
As new almonds stripped from the husk.
They guard thee not with eunuchs;
Not with bars of copper.
Gilt turquoise and silver are in the place of thy rest.
A brown robe, with threads of gold woven in
patterns, hast thou gathered about thee,
O Nathat-Ikanaie, 'Tree-at-the-river'.
As a rillet among the sedge are thy hands upon me;
Thy fingers a frosted stream.
Thy maidens are white like pebbles;
Their music about thee!
There is none like thee among the dancers;
None with swift feet.
Scheme | a bcbDExxxdxx dxcf xxaf ax xa DE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010010110 11 110111 1001 1111101010 1111 11111001 001010 111111011 01010110 111101101001 11101011 111101110 11101101 111111 111110 1100101001111 0111111100 101110011 11111010 1010101111011 1100101 11011110 110011 1111101010 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 886 |
Words | 163 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 11, 4, 4, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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