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.


Scheme Abcxxxxcxxdx Abxdx
Poetic Form
Metre 1111011001011 110111011010011 1010110 11100101 00110100 001 001010 11001110 00111 1110 00110010111010 101101101101 1111011001011 11010011 1011010010 111010110 11111101
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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Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic of the early modernist movement. more…

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