Analysis of [Greek]

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



Be in me as the eternal moods
of the bleak wind, and not
As transient things are—
gaiety of flowers.
Have me in the strong loneliness
of sunless cliffs
And of gray waters.
Let the gods speak softly of us
In days hereafter,
the shadowy flowers of Orcus
Remember thee.


Scheme ABCDEFDEGAH
Poetic Form
Metre 101100101 101101 11011 1110 11001100 111 01110 10111011 01010 01001011 0101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 276
Words 52
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 211
Words per stanza (avg) 50
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 11, 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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