Analysis of Dum Capitolium Scandet
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
How many will come after me
singing as well as I sing, none better;
Telling the heart of their truth
as I have taught them to tell it;
Fruit of my seed,
O my unnameable children.
Know then that I loved you from afore-time,
Clear speakers, naked in the sun, untrammelled.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011101 1011111110 1001111 11111111 1111 11110 111111111 110100011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 271 |
| Words | 53 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 210 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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