Analysis of Ole Kate
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
When I was only a youngster,
Sing: toodle doodlede ootl
Ole Kate would git her 'arf a pint
And wouldn't' giv' a damn hoot.
'Them stairs! them stairs, them gordam stairs
Will be the death of me/
I never heerd her say nothin'
About the priv'lege of liberty.
She'd come a sweatin' up with the coals
An a-sloshin' round with 'er mop,
Startin' in about 6 a.m.
And didn't seem never to stop.
She died on the job they tells me,
Fell plump into her pail.
Never got properly tanked as I saw,
And never got took to jail,
Just went on a sloshin'
And totin' up scuttles of coal,
And kissin9 her cat fer diversion,
Cod rest her sloshin’ soul.
‘Gimme a kissy-cuddle'
She'd say to her tibby-cat,
But she never made no mention
Of this here proletariat.
Scheme | XAXX XBCB XDXD BAXA CAEA AXEX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11110010 1111 11110101 0101011 1111111 110111 11010110 01011100 11011101 1011101 10011 01011011 11101111 110101 1011001111 0101111 11101 011111 01011010 11011 100110 1110101 11101110 1110100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 725 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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