Analysis of The House Of Splendour
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
‘Tis Evanoe's,
A house not made with hands,
But out somewhere beyond the worldly ways
Her gold is spread, above, around, inwoven;
Strange ways and walls are fashioned out of it.
And I have seen my Lady in the sun,
Her hair was spread about, a sheaf of wings,
And red the sunlight was, behind it all.
And I have seen her there within her house,
With six great sapphires hung along the wall,
Low, panel-shaped, a-level with her knees,
All her robe was woven of pale gold.
There are there many rooms and all of gold,
Of woven walls deep patterned, of email,
Of beaten work; and through the claret stone,
Set to some weaving, comes the aureate light.
Here am I come perforce my love of her,
Behold mine adoration
Maketh me clear, and there are powers in this
Which, played on by the virtues of her soul,
Break down the four-square walls of standing time.
Scheme | AAABX BAC ACAD DXBX XBAXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11 011111 111010101 011101011 1101110111 0111110001 0111010111 010110111 0111010101 11110010101 1101010101 101110111 1111010111 1101110101 110101011 111101011 1111011110 011010 1110111001 1111010101 1101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 840 |
Words | 160 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 3, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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