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
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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Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic of the early modernist movement. more…

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