Analysis of Tenzone
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
Will people accept them?
(i.e. these songs).
As a timorous wench from a centaur
(or a centurion),
Already they flee, howling in terror.
Will they be touched with the verisimilitudes?
Their virgin stupidity is untemptable.
I beg you, my friendly critics,
Do not set about to procure me an audience.
I mate with my free kind upon the crags;
the hidden recesses
Have heard the echo ofmy heels,
in the cool light,
in the darkness.
Scheme | XAXXX AXXX AXXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110011 111 101001101 100100 0101110010 1111101 110010011 11111010 1110110111100 1111110101 010100 1101011 0011 0010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 421 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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