Analysis of Safe And Sound
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
My name is Nunty Cormorant
And my finance is sound,
I lend you Englishmen hot air
At one and three the pound.
I lend you Englishmen hot air
And I get all the beef
While you stalwart sheep of freedom
Are on the poor relief.
Wot oh! my buxom hearties,
What ain't got work no more
And don't know what bug is a-bitin'
To keep your feelin's sore,
There is blokes in automobiles
And their necks sunk into fur
That keep on gettin' usury
To make 'em cosier.
I read these fellers puts it
Most tidily away
And then lends out their printed slips
To keep the wolf away
From the vaults and combination
Safes in Thread and Needle street.
I wouldn't 'ave the needle
If I had more grub to eat.
Oh the needle is your portion,
My sufferin' fellow men,
Till the King shall take the notion
To own his coin again.
Scheme | xaBa Bcxc defe dxxb xgdg fhxh ffff |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111100 010111 1111011 110101 1111011 011101 11101110 110101 111101 111111 01111101 11111 1110100 0111011 1111100 1111 1111011 1101 01111101 110101 1010010 1010101 1101010 1111111 10101110 11101 10111010 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 773 |
Words | 156 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 28 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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