Analysis of Causa

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



I join these words for four people,
Some others may overhear them,
O world, I am sorry for you,
You do not know these four people.


Scheme ABCA
Poetic Form
Metre 11111110 11011011 11111011 11111110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 135
Words 28
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 100
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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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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