Analysis of The Study In Aesthetics
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
The very small children in patched clothing,
Being smitten with an unusual wisdom,
Stopped in their play as she passed them
And cried up from their cobbles:
Guarda! Ahi, guarda! Ch’ è be’ a!
But three years after this
I heard the young Dante, whose last name I do not
know--
For there are, in Sirmione, twenty-eight young Dantes
and thirty-four Catulli;
And there had been a great catch of sardines,
And his elders
Were packing them in the great wooden boxes
For the market in Brescia, and he
Leapt about, snatching at the bright fish
And getting in both of their ways;
And in vain they commanded him to stafermo!
And when they would not let him arrange
The fish in the boxes
He stroked those which were already arranged,
Murmuring for his own satisfaction
This identical phrase:
Ch’ è be’ a
And at this I was mildly abashed.
Scheme | XAXB C BXXBXBBBXXBAXBXXB C X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101100110 10101101010 10111111 011111 111110 111101 110110111111 1 1110110111 01011 0111011101 0110 01010011010 101001001 101101011 01001111 0011010111 011111101 010010 1111001001 100111010 101001 110 011111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 821 |
Words | 152 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 1, 17, 1, 1 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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