Analysis of Epitaphs
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
Fu I loved the high cloud and the hill,
Alas, he died of alcohol.
And Li Po also died drunk.
He tried to embrace a moon
In the Yellow River.
| Scheme | XX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111011001 0111110 0111011 1110101 001010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 153 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 53 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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