Analysis of Medallion

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



Luini in porcelain!
The grand piano
Utters a profane
Protest with her clear soprano.

The sleek head emerges
From the gold-yellow frock
As Anadyomene in the opening
Pages of Reinach.

Honey-red, closing the face-oval,
A basket-work of braids which seem as if they were
Spun in King Minos' hall
From metal, or intractable amber;

The face-oval beneath the glaze,
Bright in its suave bounding-line, as,
Beneath half-watt rays,
The eyes turn topaz.


Scheme XAXA XXXX XBXB CDCD
Poetic Form Quatrain  (75%)
Metre 10100 01010 10001 1101010 011010 101101 1100100 1011 101100110 010111111110 10111 1101010010 01100101 10111011 01111 0111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 453
Words 74
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 88
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 29, 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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