Analysis of Invern
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
Earth's winter cometh
And I being part of all
And sith the spirit of all moveth in me
I must needs bear earth's winter
Drawn cold and grey with hours
And joying in a momentary sun,
Lo I am withered with waiting till my spring cometh!
Or crouch covetous of warmth
O'er scant-logged ingle blaze,
Must take cramped joy in tomed Longinus
That, read I him first time
The woods agleam with summer
Or mid desirous winds of spring,
Had set me singing spheres
Or made heart to wander forth among warm roses
Or curl in grass next neath a kindly moon.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010 0110111 0101011101 1111110 1101110 010001001 1111011011110 11111 1011101 1111011 111111 0101110 11010111 111101 111110101110 1101110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 533 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 429 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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