Analysis of National Song (E.C.)
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
There is no land like England
Where banks rise day by day,
There are no banks like English banks
To make the people pay.
There is no such land of castles
Where an Englishman is free
To read his smutty literature
With muffins at his tea.
Chorus:
For the French have comic papers
Not that nice Britons read 'em,
But the bawdy little Britons
Have bank sharks to bleed 'em
And to keep an eye on their readin' matter
Lest they should overhear the distressing chatter
Of the new economical theories
And ask inconvenient queetfes.
Scheme | XABA XCDC XXEXE DDXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110 111111 11111101 110101 11111110 1110011 11111000 110111 10 10111010 1111011 10101010 111111 0111111110 111101001010 101010010 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 515 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 4 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 105 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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