Analysis of Arides
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
The bashful Arides
Has married an ugly wife,
He was bored with his manner of life,
Indifferent and discouraged he thought he might as
Well do this as anything else.
Saying within his heart,’I am no use to myself,
'Let her, if she wants me, take me.'
He went to his doom.
| Scheme | ABBAA XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101 1101101 111111011 010001011111 1111101 10011111111 10111111 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 273 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 104 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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