Analysis of To Dives

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



Who am I to condemn you, O Dives,
I who am as much embittered
With poverty
As you are with useless riches ?


Scheme ABCD
Poetic Form
Metre 111101111 11111010 1100 11111010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 112
Words 24
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 82
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 30, 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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