Analysis of The Plunge
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
I would bathe myself in strangeness:
These comforts heaped upon me, smother me!
I burn, I scald so for the new,
New friends, new faces,
Places!
Oh to be out of this,
This that is all I wanted
- save the new.
And you,
Love, you the much, the more desired!
Do I not loathe all walls, streets, stones,
All mire, mist, all fog,
All ways of traffic?
You, I wold have flow over me like water,
Oh, but far out of this!
Grass, and low fields, and hills,
And sun,
Oh, sun enough!
Out, and alone, among some
Alien people!
Scheme | XXABBCXA AXXXXXCXXXXX |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (35%) Tetractys (30%) |
Metre | 1111010 1101011101 11111101 11110 10 111111 1111110 101 01 110101010 11111111 11111 11110 11111101110 111111 101101 01 1101 1001011 10010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 501 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 12 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 188 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 51 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 09, 2023
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