Analysis of Apparuit

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



Golden rose the house, in the portal I saw
thee, a marvel, carven in subtle stuff, a
portent. Life died down in the lamp and flickered,
caught at the wonder.

Crimson, frosty with dew, the roses bend where
thou afar, moving in the glamorous sun,
drinkst in life of earth, of the air, the tissue
golden about thee.

Green the ways, the breath of the fields is thine there,
open lies the land, yet the steely going
darkly hast thou dared and the dreaded aether
parted before thee.

Swift at courage thou in the shell of gold, casting
a-loose the cloak of the body, earnest
straight, then shone thine oriel and the stunned light
faded about thee.

Half the graven shoulder, the throat aflash with
strands of light inwoven about it, loveliest
of all things, frail alabaster, ah me!
swift in departing.

Clothed in goldish weft, delicately perfect,
gone as wind ! The cloth of the magical hands!
Thou a slight thing, thou in access of cunning
dar'dst to assume this?


Scheme XXAB CXXD CEBD EXXD XADE XXEX
Poetic Form
Metre 10101001011 1010101010 10111001010 11010 10101101011 10110001001 1011110101 10011 10101101111 10101101010 1011100101 10011 111010011110 0101101010 111110011 10011 1010100111 11110111 111110011 10010 1011100001 11101101001 1011101110 11011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 941
Words 172
Sentences 11
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 125
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 26, 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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