Analysis of The Social Order
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
I
This government official
Whose wife is several years his senior,
Has such a caressing air
When he shakes hands with young ladies.
II
(Pompes Funèbres)
This old lady,
Who was fcso old that she was an atheist',
Is now surrounded
By six candles and a crucifix,
While the second wife of a nephew
Makes hay with the things in her house.
Her two cats
Go before her into Avernus;
A sort of chloroformed suttee,
And it is to be hoped that their spirits will walk
With their tails up,
And with a plaintive, gentle mewing,
For it is certain that she has left on this earth
No sound
Save a squabble of female connections,
Scheme | AXXXB AB CXXXXXXBCDXDXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 1100010 111101110 1100101 11111110 1 111 1110 11111111100 11010 11100010 101011010 11101001 011 1010011 01111 011111111011 1111 01010101 111101111111 11 101011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 600 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 2, 15 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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