Analysis of The Garrett

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are.
Come, my friend, and remember
      t hat the rich have butlers and no friends,
And we have friends and no butlers.
Come, let us pity the married and the unmarried.

Dawn enters with little feet
      like a gilded Pavlova
And I am near my desire.
Nor has life in it aught better
Than this hour of clear coolness
      t he hour of waking together.  


Scheme XAXXX XXAAXA
Poetic Form
Metre 11110111101111 1110010 1101110011 01110110 1111001000010 1101101 10101 01111010 11101110 11101110 1110110010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 403
Words 78
Sentences 6
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 6
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 150
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 01, 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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