Personae
Ezra Pound's early poems of 1909: masks, troubadours, "Cino", "Na Audiart".
Measured across the book
Across its 1,131 lines, 95% of stressed syllables fall on the beat (95% interval 94% to 96%). Alliteration runs at 1.00 times what shuffling the words would give (0.26 observed against 0.26 expected). 28% of the lines have a feminine ending.
Baselines and intervals are described in the methods.
Contents
Personaeiambic pentameter · 60 linesCinotrochaic tetrameter · 54 linesNa Audiartiambic tetrameter · 84 linesBallad of the Gibbetiambic tetrameter · AABB · 46 linesMesmerismdactylic tetrameter · ABAB · 21 linesFifine Answersiambic pentameter · AABB · 31 linesIn Tempore Senectutis36 linesFamam Librosque Canotrochaic trimeter · 16 linesMine?31 linesTo K.R.H.66 linesPraise of Ysolt56 linesEnvoi4 linesCamaraderieiambic pentameter · ABBA · 12 linesMasksiambic pentameter · 14 linesTally-Oiambic pentameter · 4 linesBallad for Gloomcommon measure · 26 linesFor E. Mc C24 linesEnvoitrochaic trimeter · 37 linesXenia8 linesOcciditiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 14 linesSearch7 linesAn Idyl for Glaucusiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 56 linesVoices in the Wind5 linesOimè, Oimè!unrhymed · 14 linesIn Duranceiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 53 linesA Vision of Italyiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 114 linesIn the Old Age of the Souliambic pentameter · unrhymed · 14 linesAlba Belingalis4 linesRefiambic pentameter · 12 linesFrom Syriaiambic tetrameter · ABBACCA · 42 linesEnvoiiambic tetrameter · 7 linesD'Aubigne to Dianeiambic tetrameter · 14 linesMarvoiliambic pentameter · 50 linesRevoltiambic pentameter · 31 linesAnd Thus in Ninevehiambic pentameter · unrhymed · 23 linesThe White Stagiambic pentameter · 7 linesPiccadillydactylic trimeter · 9 linesMarvoiliambic pentameter · 25 lines
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