Analysis of Fish And Shadow
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
The salmon-trout drifts in the stream,
The soul of the salmon-trout floats over the stream
Like a little wafer of light.
The salmon moves in the sun-shot, bright shallow sea. . . .
As light as the shadow of the fish
that falls through the water,
She came into the large room by the stair,
Yawning a little she came with the sleep still upon her.
'I am just from bed. The sleep is still in my eyes.
'Come. I have had a long dream.'
And I: That wood?
'And two springs have passed us.'
'Not so far, no, not so far now,
There is a place but no one else knows it
A field in a valley . . .
Qu'ieu sui avinen,
Ieu lo sai,'
She must speak of the time
Of Arnaut de Mareuil, I thought, 'qu'ieu sui avinen.’
Light as the shadow of the fish
That falls through the pale green water.
Scheme | AAX B CDXD XAXXEXBEX XE CD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011001 011010111001 10101011 010100111101 11101101 111010 1101011101 10010111011010 111110111011 1111011 0111 011111 11111111 1101111111 010010 1101 111 111101 1111111101 1101101 11101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 759 |
Words | 156 |
Sentences | 18 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 1, 4, 9, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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