Analysis of The Temperaments
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
Nine adulteries, 12 liaisons, 64 fornications and
something approaching a rape
Rest nightly upon the soul of our delicate friend
Florialis,
And yet the man is so quiet and reserved in demeanour
That he passes for both bloodless and sexless.
Bastidides, on the contrary, who both talks and writes
of nothing save copulation,
Has become the father of twins,
But he accomplished this feat at some cost;
He had to be four times cuckold.
Scheme | ABCDEDDFDGA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110 1001001 11001011101001 1 0101111000101 11101110010 11010011101 11011 10101011 1101011111 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 430 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 349 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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