Analysis of Ezra on the Strike
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
Wal, Thanksgivin' do be comin' round.
With the price of turkeys on the bound,
And coal, by gum! Thet were just found,
Is surely gettin' cheaper.
The winds will soon begin to howl,
And winter, in its yearly growl,
Across the medders begin to prowl,
And Jack Frost gettin' deeper.
By shucks! It seems to me,
That you I orter be
Thankful, that our Ted could see
A way to operate it.
I sez to Mandy, sure, sez I,
I'll bet thet air patch o' rye
Thet he'll squash 'em by-and-by,
And he did, by cricket!
No use talkin', he's the man -
One of the best thet ever ran,
Fer didn't I turn Republican
One o' the fust?
I 'lowed as how he'd beat the rest,
But old Si Perkins, he hemmed and guessed,
And sed as how it wuzn't best
To meddle with the trust.
Scheme | AAAB CCCB DDDX EEEX FFXG HHHG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111 101110101 01111011 110110 01110111 01001101 010100111 011110 111111 11111 10110111 011101 11110111 1111111 1111101 011110 1110101 11011101 110110100 1101 11111101 111101101 0111111 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 726 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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