Analysis of The Needle
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
Come, or the stellar tide will slip away.
Eastward avoid the hour of its decline,
Now! for the needle trembles in my soul!
Here have we had the vantage, the good hour.
Here we have had our day, your day and mine.
Come now, before this power
That bears us up, shall turn against the pole.
Mock not the flood of stars, the thing's to be.
O Love, come now, this land turns evil slowly.
The waves bore in, soon will they bear away.
The treasure is ours, make we fast land with it.
Move we and take the tide, with its next favour,
Abide
Under some neutral force
Until this course turneth aside.
Scheme | ABC DBDCEEA XDFXF |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (27%) |
Metre | 1101011101 10010101101 110101011 11110100110 11111011101 1101110 1111110101 1101110111 11111111010 0110111101 010110111111 1101011111 01 101101 0111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 583 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 12 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 7, 5 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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