Analysis of Prayer For His Lady’s Life
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
FROM PROPERTIUS, ELEGIAE, LIB. III, 26
Here let thy clemency, Persephone, hold firm,
Do thou, Pluto, bring here no greater harshness.
So many thousand beauties are gone down to Avernus,
Ye might let one remain above with us.
With you is lope, with you the white-gleaming Tyro,
With you is Europa and the shameless Pasiphae,
And all the fair from Troy and all from Achaia,
From the sundered realms, of Thebes and of aged Priamus;
And all the maidens of Rome, as many as they were,
They died and the greed of your flame consumes them.
Here let thy clemency, Persephone, hold firm.
Do thou, Pluto, bring here no greater harshness.
So many thousandfair are gone down to Avernus,
Ye might let one remain above with us.
Scheme | xABbB cxxbcx ABbB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11111 111100111 11101111010 110101011111 1111010111 11111101101 11101000101 0101110111 1011110111 0101011110110 11001111011 111100111 11101111010 110111111 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 707 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 6, 4 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 186 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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