Analysis of ßìÝñññù (Greek title)

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



Thy soul
Grown delicate with satieties,
Atthis.
O Atthis,
I long for thy lips.
I long for thy narrow breasts,
Thou restless, ungathered.


Scheme ABBBBBC
Poetic Form
Metre 11 110011 1 11 11111 1111101 1101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 138
Words 25
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 7
Lines Amount 7
Letters per line (avg) 15
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 107
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 25, 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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