Analysis of Ts'ai Chi'h
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
The petals fall in the fountain,
the orange-coloured rose-leaves,
Their ochre clings to the stone.
| Scheme | ABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tercet |
| Metre | 01010010 0101011 1101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 106 |
| Words | 17 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3 |
| Lines Amount | 3 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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