Analysis of Medallion
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
Luini in porcelain!
The grand piano
Utters a profane
Protest with her clear soprano.
The sleek head emerges
From the gold-yellow frock
As Anadyomene in the opening
Pages of Reinach.
Honey-red, closing the face-oval,
A basket-work of braids which seem as if they were
Spun in King Minos' hall
From metal, or intractable amber;
The face-oval beneath the glaze,
Bright in its suave bounding-line, as,
Beneath half-watt rays,
The eyes turn topaz.
Scheme | XAXA XXXX XBXB CDCD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 10100 01010 10001 1101010 011010 101101 1100100 1011 101100110 010111111110 10111 1101010010 01100101 10111011 01111 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 453 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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