Analysis of Paracelsus In Excelsis
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
‘Being no longer human, why should I
Pretend humanity or don the frail attire?
Men have I known and men, but never one
Was grown so free an essence, or become
So simply element as what I am.
The mist goes from the mirror and I see.
Behold! the world of forms is swept beneath-
Turmoil grown visible beneath our peace,
And we that are grown formless, rise above-
Fluids intangible that have been men,
We seem as statues round whose high-risen base
Some overflowing river is run mad,
In us alone the element of calm.'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011010111 0101001101010 1111011101 1111110101 1101001111 0111010011 0101111101 1110001101 011111101 1001001111 1111111101 110010111 0101010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 513 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 403 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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