Analysis of from "Hugh Selwyn Mauberly"
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
For three years, out of key with his time,
He strove to resuscitate the dead art
Of poetry; to maintain "the sublime"
In the old scene.Wrong from the start--
No, hardly, but seeing he had been born
In a half-savage country, out of date;
Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn;
Capaneus; trout for factitious bait;
[idmen gar toi pant, hos eni Troiei]
Caught in the unstopped ear;
Giving the rocks small lee-way
The chopped seas held him, therefore, that year.
His true Penelope was Flaubert,
He fished by obstinate isles;
Observed the elegance of Circe's hair
Rather than the mottoes on sun-dials.
Unaffected by "the march of events,"
He passed from men's memory in l'an trentuniesme
De son eage; the case presents
No adjunct to the Muses' diadem.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EEXE XXEX XAXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (60%) Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 111111111 111010011 1100101001 0011101 1101101111 0011010111 1100110101010 1110101 1111111 10011 1001111 01111111 110100110 1111001 010100111 101011110 010101101 11111000111 1110110 11101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 747 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 119 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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