Analysis of Villonaud for This Yule
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
Towards the Noel that morte saison
(Christ make the shepherds' homage dear!)
Then when the grey wolves everychone
Drink of the winds their chill small-beer
And lap o' the snows food's gueredon
Then makyth my heart his yule-tide cheer
(Skoal! with the dregs if the clear be gone!)
Wineing the ghosts of yester-year.
Ask ye what ghost I dream upon?
(What of the magians' scented gear?)
The ghosts of dead loves everyone
That make the stark winds reek with fear
Lest love return with the foison sun
And slay the memories that me cheer
(Such as I drink to mine fashion)
Wineing the ghosts of yester-year.
Where are the joys my heart had won?
(Saturn and Mars to Zeus drawn near!)
Where are athe lips mine lay upon,
Aye! where are the glances feat and clear
That bade my heart his valor don?
I skoal to the eyes as grey-blown meer
(Who knows whose was that paragon?)
Wineing the ghosts of yester-year.
Prince: ask me not what I have done
Nor what God hath that can me cheer
But ye ask first where the winds are gone
Wineing the ghosts of yester-year.
Scheme | abababcB abdbdbdB dbaba xaB dbcB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010011110 11010101 110111 11011111 0110111 11111111 110110111 101111 11111101 1101101 0111110 11011111 11011011 010100111 11111110 101111 11011111 10011111 11111101 111010101 11111101 1110111110 1111110 101111 11111111 11111111 111110111 101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,043 |
Words | 199 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 5, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 163 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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