Analysis of Ione, Dead the Long Year
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
Empty are the ways,
Empty are the ways of this land
And the flowers
Bend over with heavy heads.
They bend in vain.
Empty are the ways of this land
Where Ione
Walked once, and now does not walk
But seems like a person just gone.
| Scheme | aBcdeBfgh |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (44%) |
| Metre | 10101 10101111 0010 1101101 1101 10101111 1010 1101111 11101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 235 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 177 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 16, 2023
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