Analysis of Ancora
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
Good God! They say you are risqué,
O canzonetti!
We who went out into the four A. M. of the world
Composing our albas,
We who shook off our dew with the rabbits,
We who have seen even Artemis a-binding her sandals,
Have we ever heard the like?
O mountains of Hellas!!
Gather about me, O Muses!
When we sat upon the granite brink in Helicon
Clothed in the tattered sunlight,
Muses with delicate shins,
O Muses with delectable knee-joints,
When we splashed and were splashed with
The lucid Castalian spray,
Had we ever such an epithet cast upon us!!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 11 1111010101101 010101 11111011010 1111101010010 1110101 11011 10011110 111010101010 100101 1011001 1101010011 1110011 01011 111011101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 541 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 426 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 100 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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