Analysis of A Virginal
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
No, no! Go from me. I have left her lately.
I will not spoil my sheath with lesser brightness,
For my surrounding air hath a new lightness;
Slight are her arms, yet they have bound me straitly
And left me cloaked as with a gauze of aether;
As with sweet leaves; as with subtle clearness.
Oh, I have picked up magic in her nearness
To sheathe me half in half the things that sheathe her.
No, no! Go from me. I have still the flavour,
Soft as spring wind that's come from birchen bowers.
Green come the shoots, aye April in the branches,
As winter's wound with her sleight hand she staunches,
Hath of the trees a likeness of the savour:
As white their bark, so white this lady's hours.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111010 11111111010 11010110110 1101111111 0111110111 111111101 1111110001 11110101110 1111111101 1111111110 11011100010 1101101111 1101010101 11111111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 678 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 528 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 130 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 04, 2023
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