Analysis of Dompna Pois De Me No'us Cal
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
FROM THE PROVENCAL OF EN BERTRANS DE BORN
Lady, since you care nothing for me,
And since you have shut me away from you
Causelessly,
I know not wnere to go seeking,
For certainly
I will never again gather
Joy so rich, and if I find not ever
A lady with look so speaking
To my desire, worth yours whom I have lost,
I’ll have no other love at any cost.
And since I could not find a peer to you,
Neither one so fair, nor of such heart,
So eager and alert,
Nor with such art
In attire, nor so gay
Nor with gift so bountiful and so true,
I will go out a-searching,
Culling from each a fair trait
To make me a borrowed lady
Till I again find you ready.
Bels Cembelins, I take of you your colour,
For it's your own, and your glance
Where love is,
A proud thing I do here,
For, as to colour and eyes
I shall have missed nothing at all,
Having yours.
I ask of Midons Aelis (of Montfort)
Her straight speech free-running,
That my phantom lack not in cunning,
At Chalais of the Viscountess, I would
That she give me outright
Her two hands and her throat,
So take I my road
To Rochechouart,
Swift-foot to my Lady Anhes,
Seeing that Tristan's lady Iseutz had never
Such grace of locks, I do ye to wit,
Though she'd the far fame for it.
Of Audiart at Malemort,
Though she with a full heart
Wish me ill,
I'd have her form that's laced
So cunningly,
Without blemish, for her love
Breaks not nor turns aside.
I of Miels-de-ben demand
Her straight fresh body,
She is so supple and young,
Her robes can but do her wrong.
Her white teeth, of the Lady Faidita
I ask, and the fine courtesy
She hath to welcome one,
And such replies she lavishes
Within her nest;
Of Bels Mirals, the rest,
Tall stature and gaiety,
To make these avail
She knoweth well, betide
No change nor turning aside.
Ah, Bels Senher, Maent, at last
I ask naught from you,
Save that I have such hunger for
This phantom
As I've for you, such flame-lap,
And yet I'd rather
Ask of you than hold another,
Mayhap, right close and kissed.
Ah, lady, why have you cast
Me out, knowing you hold me so fast!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111111 101111011 0111110111 1 11111110 1100 11100110 1110111110 01011110 11010111111 1111011101 0111110111 101111111 110001 1111 0010111 1111100011 1111010 1011011 1110110 11011110 11111111 1111011 111 011111 111101 11111011 101 11111110 011110 111011010 1110111 111111 011001 11111 11 1111101 1011101110 111111111 1101111 1111 111011 111 110111 11 0110101 111101 1111101 01110 1111001 0111101 01110101 11001100 111101 01011100 0101 11101 11001 11101 11101 1111001 111111 11111 11111101 110 1111111 01110 11111010 11101 1101111 111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,984 |
Words | 400 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 10, 10, 9, 11, 10, 10 |
Lines Amount | 71 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 224 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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