Analysis of Guido Invites You Thus

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



‘Lappo I leave behind and Dante too,
Lo, I would sail the seas with thee alone!
Talk me no love talk, no bought-cheap fiddl’ry,
Mine is the ship and thine the merchandise,
All the blind earth knows not th'emprise
Whereto thou calledst and whereto I call.

Lo, I have seen thee bound about with dreams,
Lo, I have known thy heart and its desire;
Life, all of it, my sea, and all men's streams
Are fused in it as flames of an altar fire !
Lo, thou hast voyaged not! The ship is mine.'


Scheme XXABBX CACAX
Poetic Form
Metre 111010101 1111011101 111111111 110101010 1011111101 1110111 1111110111 11111101010 1111110111 110111111010 1111010111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 483
Words 96
Sentences 6
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 5
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 182
Words per stanza (avg) 47
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 29, 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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