Analysis of Homage To Quintus Septimus Florentis Christianus
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
I
(Ex libris Graecæ)
Theodorus will be pleased at my death,
And .someone else will be pleased at the death of Theodoras,
And yet everyone speaks evil of death.
II
This place is the Cyprian's for she has ever the fancy
To be looking out across the bright sea,
Therefore the sailors are cheered, and the waves
Keep small with reverence, beholding her image.
Anyte
III
A sad and great evil is the expectation of death
And there are also the inane expenses of the funeral;
Let us therefore cease from pitying the dead
For after death there comes no other calamity.
Palladas
IV
Troy
Whithe r, O city, are your profits and your gilded shrines,
And your barbecues of great oxen,
And the tall women walking your streets, in gilt clothes,
With their perfumes in little alabaster boxes?
Where is the work of your home-born sculptors?
Time's tooth is into the lot, and war's and fate's too.
Envy has taken your all,
Save your douth and your story.
Agathas Scholasticus
V
Woman? Oh, woman is a consummate rage,
but dead, or asleep, she pleases.
Take her. She has two excellent seasons.
Palladas
VI
Nicharcus upon Phidon his doctor
Phidon neither purged me, nor touched me,
But I remembered the name of his fever medicine and
died.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 111 1111111 01111110111 011011011 1 1110111110010 1110101011 101011001 111100010010 1 1 0101101001011 0111000101010100 1111110001 1101111100100 1 1 1 11110111001101 01101110 001101011011 110101010010 1101111110 111010101011 1011011 1110110 11 1 10110101001 11101110 1011110010 1 1 1011110 11011111 110100111101000 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,191 |
Words | 219 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 6, 6, 7, 4, 10 |
Lines Amount | 38 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 160 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 11, 2023
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