Analysis of The Beautiful Toilet

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



Blue, blue is the grass about the river
And the willows have overfilled the close garden.
And within, the mistress, in the midmost of her youth.
White, white of face, hesitates, passing the door.
Slender, she puts forth a slender hand;

And she was a courtezan in the old days,
And she has married a sot,
Who now goes drunkenly out
And leaves her too much alone.


Scheme XXXXX XXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1110101010 001110110 001010001101 1111101001 101110101 011010011 0111001 11111 0101101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 361
Words 69
Sentences 5
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 4
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 141
Words per stanza (avg) 34
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 01, 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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