Analysis of Historion
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
No man hath dared to write this thing as yet,
And yet I know, how that the souls of all men great
At times pass athrough us,
And we are melted into them, and are not
Save reflexions of their souls.
Thus am I Dante for a space and am
One Francois Villon, ballad-lord and thief,
Or am such holy ones I may not write
Lest blasphemy be writ against my name;
This for an instant and the flame is gone.
'Tis as in midmost us there glows a sphere
Translucent, molten gold, that is the "I"
And into this some form projects itself:
Christus, or John, or eke the Florentine;
And as the clear space is not if a form's
Imposed thereon,
So cease we from all being for the time,
And these, the Masters of the Soul, live on.
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Metre | 1111111111 011111011111 11111 01110011011 11111 1111010101 101110101 1111011111 1100110111 1111000111 110111101 0101011101 0011111001 11111010 0101111101 0101 1111110101 0101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 716 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 8 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 272 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 71 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 25, 2023
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