Analysis of Leave-Taking Near Shoku
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
They say the roads of Sanso are steep,
Sheer as the mountains.
The walls rise in a man's face,
Clouds grow out of the hill
at his horse's bridle.
Sweet trees are on the paved way of the Shin,
Their trunks burst through the paving,
And freshets are bursting their ice
in the midst of Shoku, a proud city.
Men's fates are already set,
There is no need of asking diviners.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110111011 11010 0110011 111101 111010 1111011101 1111010 0111011 001110110 1110101 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 367 |
Words | 73 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 286 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 71 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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