Analysis of The Lake Isle
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves,
Give me in due time, I beseech you, a little tobacco-shop,
With the little bright boxes
piled up neatly upon the shelves
And the loose fragment cavendish
and the shag,
And the bright Virginia
loose under the bright glass cases,
And a pair of scales
not too greasy,
And the votailles dropping in for a word or two in passing,
For a flip word, and to tidy their hair a bit.
O God, O Venus, O Mercury, patron of thieves,
Lend me a little tobacco-shop,
or install me in any profession
Save this damn'd profession of writing,
where one needs one's brains all the time.
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 611 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 5 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 236 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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