Analysis of Simulacra
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
Why does the horse-faced lady of just the unmentionable age
Walk down Longacre reciting Swinburne to herself, inaudibly?
Why does the small child in the soiled-white imitation fur coat
Crawl in the very black gutter beneath the grape stand?
Why does the really handsome young woman approach me in Sackville Street
Undeterred by the manifest age of my trappings?
| Scheme | ABCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101110110010001 111001011010100 11011001101011 1001011001011 1101010110011011 01101011110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
| Characters | 364 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 50 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 297 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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