Analysis of Surgit Fama
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
There is a truce among the gods,
Kore is seen in the North
Skirting the blue-gray sea
In gilded and russet mantle.
The corn has again it's mother and she, Leuconoe,
That failed never women,
Fails not the earth now.
The tricksome Hermes is here;
He moves behind me
Eager to catch my words,
Eager to spread them with rumour;
To set upon them his change
Crafty and subtle;
To alter them to his purpose;
But do thou speak true, even to the letter:
‘Once more in Delos, once more is the altar a-quiver.
Once more is the chant heard.
Once more are the never abandoned gardens
Full of gossip and old tales.’
Scheme | XXABCCC XAXDXBXD DXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 111001 100111 01001010 01101110011 111010 11011 011011 11011 101111 1011110 1101111 10010 11011110 11111101010 1101111010010 111011 11101001010 1110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 594 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 8, 4 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 155 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 30, 2023
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