Analysis of Ancora

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



Good God! They say you are risqué,
O canzonetti!
We who went out into the four A. M. of the world
Composing our albas,
We who shook off our dew with the rabbits,
We who have seen even Artemis a-binding her sandals,
Have we ever heard the like?
O mountains of Hellas!!
Gather about me, O Muses!
When we sat upon the granite brink in Helicon
Clothed in the tattered sunlight,
Muses with delicate shins,
O Muses with delectable knee-joints,
When we splashed and were splashed with
The lucid Castalian spray,
Had we ever such an epithet cast upon us!!


Scheme ABBCCCACCDBCCEFC
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111 11 1111010101101 010101 11111011010 1111101010010 1110101 11011 10011110 111010101010 100101 1011001 1101010011 1110011 01011 111011101011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 541
Words 102
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 426
Words per stanza (avg) 100
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic of the early modernist movement. more…

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