Analysis of The Gypsy
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
That was the top of the walk, when he said:
'Have you seen any others, any of our lot,
With apes or bears?'
A brown upstanding fellow
Not like the half-castes,
up on the wet road near Clermont.
The wind came, and the rain,
And mist clotted about the trees in the valley,
And I’d the long ways behind me,
gray Aries and Biaucaire,
And he said, 'Have you seen any of our lot?'
I'd seen a lot of his lot . . .
ever since Rhodez,
Coming down from the fair
of St. John,
With caravans, but never an ape or a bear.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101101111 1111010101101 1111 011010 11011 1101111 011001 011001010010 01011011 11001 011111101101 1101111 1011 101101 111 11011011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 502 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 375 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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