Analysis of Au Jardin

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



O you away high there,
you that lean
From amber lattices upon the cobalt night,
I am below amid the pine trees,
Amid the little pine trees, hear me!

'The jester walked in the garden.'
Did he so?
Well, there's no use your loving me
That way, Lady;
For I've nothing but songs to give you.

I am set wide upon the world's ways
To say that life is, some way, a gay thing,
But you never string two days upon one wire
But there'll come sorrow of it.
And I loved a love once,
Over beyond the moon there,
I loved a love once,
And, may be, more times,

But she danced like a pink moth in the shrubbery.
Oh, I know you women from the 'other folk',
And it'll all come right,
O' Sundays.

'The jester walked in the garden.'
Did he so?


Scheme axbxc DEccx fxxxgagx cxbf DE
Poetic Form
Metre 110111 111 110101011 110101011 010101111 01010010 111 11111101 1110 111011111 111101011 1111111011 111011101110 11011011 011011 1001011 11011 01111 111101100100 11111010101 010111 11 01010010 111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 704
Words 149
Sentences 10
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 8, 4, 2
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 107
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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