Analysis of The White Stag
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
I ha' seen them 'mid the clouds on the heather.
Lo! they pause not for love nor for sorrow,
Yet their eyes are as the eyes of a maid to her lover,
When the white hart breaks his cover
And the white wind breaks the morn.
‘'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting,
Bid the world's hounds come to horn!’
| Scheme | AXAAB XB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111011010 1111111110 11111011011010 10111110 0011101 101111010 1011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 308 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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