Analysis of The City Of Choan
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
The phoenix are at play on their terrace.
The phoenix are gone, the river Hows on alone.
Flowers and grass
Cover over the dark path
where lay the dynastic house of the Go.
The bright cloths and bright caps of Shin
Are now the base of old hills.
The Three Mountains fall through the far heaven,
The isle of White Heron
splits the two streams apart.
Now the high clouds cover the sun
And I can not see Choan afar
And I am sad.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101111110 010110101101 1001 1010011 1100101101 01101111 1101111 0110110110 011110 101101 10111001 01111101 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 420 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 6 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 167 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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