Analysis of Song Of The Six Hundred M.P.'S
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
‘We are 'ere met together
in this momentous hower,
Ter lick th' bankers' dirty boots
an' keep the Bank in power.’
We are 'ere met together
ter grind the same old axes
And keep the people in its place
a'payin' us the taxes.
We are six hundred beefy men
(but mostly gas and suet)
An’ every year we meet to let
some other feller do it.'
I see their 'igh 'ats on the seats
an' them sprawling on the benches
And thinks about a Rowton 'ouse
and a lot of small street stenches.
'O Britain, muvver of parliaments,
'ave you seen yer larst sweet litter?
Could yeh swap th' brains of orl this lot
fer 'arft a pint o' bitter?'
‘I couldn't,' she sez, ‘an' I aint tried,
They're me own,' she sez to me,
‘As footlin' a lot as was ever spawned
to defend democracy.'
Scheme | Aaba Acxx xddd xcbb xada dede |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 1111010 0101010 111110101 1101010 1111010 1101110 01010011 11010 11110101 110101 110011111 1101011 11111101 11101010 01010101 0011111 11011100 11111110 1111111111 1101110 110111111 1111111 110111101 1010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 746 |
Words | 154 |
Sentences | 8 |
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) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 17, 2023
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