Analysis of Of Jacopo Del Sellaio
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
This man knew out the secret ways of love,
No man could paint such things who did not know.
And now she's gone, who was his Cyprian,
And you are here, who are ‘The Isles’ to me.
And here's the thing that lasts the whole thing out:
The eyes of this dead lady speak to me.
| Scheme | XXXA XA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111010111 1111111111 0111111100 0111110111 0101110111 0111110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 277 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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