Analysis of ‘Phasellus Ille’
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
1 his papier-mâché, which you see, my friends,
Saith 'twas the worthiest of editors.
Its mind was made up in 'the seventies',
Nor hath it ever since changed that concoction.
It works to represent that school of thought
Which brought the hair-cloth chair to such perfection,
Nor will the horrid threats of Bernard Shaw
Shake up the stagnant pool of its convictions;
Nay, should the deathless voice of all the world
Speak once again for its sole stimulation,
Twould not move it one jot from left to right.
Come Beauty barefoot from the Cyclades,
She'd find a model for St. Anthony
In this thing's sure decorum and behaviour.
Scheme | XXABXBXXXBX AXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111111 1101001100 1111100100 11110111010 111011111 11011111010 1101011011 11010111010 110111101 1101111010 1111111111 110110010 1101011100 011101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 619 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 246 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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