Analysis of Pan Is Dead

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



‘Pan is dead. Great Pan is dead.
Ah! bow your heads, ye maidens all,
And weave ye him his coronal.’

'There is no summer in the leaves,
And withered are the sedges;
How shall we weave a coronal,
Or gather floral pledges?'

'That I may not say, Ladies.
Death was ever a churl.
That I may not say, Ladies.
How should he show a reason,
That he has taken our Lord away
Upon such hollow season?'


Scheme xaa bbax CaCdxd
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111 11111101 011111 11110001 010101 111101 1101010 1111110 111001 1111110 1111010 1111010101 0111010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 388
Words 81
Sentences 10
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 4, 6
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 97
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 28, 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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