Analysis of Old Idea Of Choan By Rosoriu
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
I
The narrow streets cut into the wide highway at Choan,
Dark oxen, white horses,
drag on the seven coaches with outriders.
The coaches are perfumed wood,
The jewelled chair is held up at the crossway,
Before the royal lodge:
A glitter of golden saddles, awaiting the princess;
They eddy before the gate of the barons.
The canopy embroidered with dragons
drinks in and casts back the sun.
Evening comes.
The trappings are bordered with mist.
The hundred cords of mist are spread through
and double the trees,
Night birds, and night women,
Spread out their sounds through the gardens.
II
Birds with flowery wing, hovering butterflies
crowd over the thousand gates,
Trees that glitter like jade,
terraces tinged with silver,
The seed of a myriad hues,
A net-work of arbours and passages and covered ways,
Double towers, winged roofs,
border the net-work of ways:
A place of felicitous meeting.
Riu's house stands out on the sky,
with glitter of colour
As Butei of Kan had made the high golden lotus
to gather his dews,
Before it another house which I do not know:
How shall we know all the friends
whom we meet on strange roadways?
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Metre | 1 010110101111 110110 1101010110 0101011 011111101 010101 01011010010010 11001011010 0100010110 1001101 101 01011011 010111111 01001 110110 11111010 1 11100110010 1100101 111011 1001110 01101001 0111101000101 101011 1001111 011010010 1111101 11011 111111011010 11011 011010111111 1111101 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,104 |
Words | 199 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 17, 17 |
Lines Amount | 34 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 450 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 99 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 09, 2023
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