Analysis of A Ballad Of The Mulberry Road
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
The sun rises in south east corner of things
To look on the tall house of the Shin
For they have a daughter named Rafu,
(pretty girl)
She made the name for herself: 'Gauze Veil,'
For she feeds mulberries to silkworms.
She gets them by the south wall of the town.
With green strings she makes the warp of her basket,
She makes the shoulder-straps of her basket
from the boughs of Katsura,
And she piles her hair up on the left side of her headpiece.
Her earrings are made of pearl,
Her underskirt is of green pattern-silk,
Her overskirt is the same silk dyed in purple,
And when men going by look on Rafu
They set down their burdens,
They stand and twirl their moustaches.
Scheme | AXBCXXXDDXA CXXBXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01100111011 111011101 11101011 101 110110111 111111 1111011101 11111011010 1101011010 10111 0110111011101 0101111 01111101 0110111010 011101111 111110 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 663 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 6 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 264 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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