Analysis of Tenzone

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



Will people accept them?
(i.e. these songs).
As a timorous wench from a centaur
(or a centurion),
Already they flee, howling in terror.

Will they be touched with the verisimilitudes?
Their virgin stupidity is untemptable.
I beg you, my friendly critics,
Do not set about to procure me an audience.

I mate with my free kind upon the crags;
the hidden recesses
Have heard the echo ofmy heels,
in the cool light,
in the darkness.


Scheme XAXXX AXXX AXXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 110011 111 101001101 100100 0101110010 1111101 110010011 11111010 1110110111100 1111110101 010100 1101011 0011 0010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 421
Words 78
Sentences 10
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 4, 5
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 111
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 21, 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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