Analysis of A Pact
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman -
I have detested you long enough.
I come to you as a grown child
Who has had a pig-headed father;
I am old enough now to make friends.
It was you that broke the new wood,
Now is a time for carving.
We have one sap and one root -
Let there be commerce between us.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (33%) |
| Metre | 110111110 110101101 11111011 111011010 111011111 11111011 1101110 1111011 11110011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 302 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 226 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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