Analysis of Tempora
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
Io! Io! Tamuz!
The Dryad staiids in my court-yard
With plaintive, querulous crying.
(Tamuz. Io! Tamuz!)
Oh, no, she is not crying: 'Tamuz.'
She says, 'May my poems be printed this week?
The god Pan is afraid to ask you,
May my poems be printed this week?'
| Scheme | ABCAADED |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10101 0110111 11010010 1101 11111101 11111011011 011101111 111011011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 256 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 24, 2023
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