Analysis of Speech For Psyche In The Golden Book Of Apuleius
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
All night, and as the wind lieth among
The cypress trees, he lay,
Nor held me save as air that brusheth by one
Close, and as the petals of flowers in falling
Waver and seem not drawn to earth, so he
Seemed over me to hover light as leaves
And closer me than air,
And music flowing through me seemed to open
Mine eyes upon new colours.
O winds, what wind can match the weight of him!
| Scheme | ABCDEFGCFH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) |
| Metre | 110101101 010111 1111111111 101010110010 1001111111 1101110111 010111 01010111110 110111 1111110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 381 |
| Words | 79 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 297 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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