Analysis of Alf’s Third Bit
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
DOLE THE BELL! BELL THE DOLE!
Whom can these duds attack?
Soapy Sime? Slipp'ry Mac?
Naught but a shirt is there
Such as the fascists wear,
Never the man inside
Moving a nation-wide
Disgust with hokum.
Plenty to right of 'em,
Plenty to left of 'em,
Yeh! What is left of 'em,
Boozy, uncertain.
See how they take it all, .
Down there in Clerkenwall
Readin' th' pypers!
Syrup and soothing dope,
Sure, they can live on hope,
Ain't yeh got precedent ?
Ten years and twelve years gone,
Ten more and nothing done,
GOD save Britannia!
| Scheme | A BBCCDDX EEEFXAX GGXXFX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101101 111101 10111 110111 110101 100101 100101 01110 101111 101111 111111 10010 111111 1101 1111 100101 111111 111100 110111 110101 110100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 513 |
| Words | 97 |
| Sentences | 13 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 7, 7, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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