Analysis of Before Sleep
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
The lateral vibrations caress me,
They leap and caress me,
They work pathetically in my favour,
They seek my financial good.
She of the spear stands present.
The gods of the underworld attend me, O Annubis,
These are they of thy company.
With a pathetic solicitude they attend me;
Undulant,
Their realm is the lateral courses.
Light!
I am up to follow thee, Pallas.
Up and out of their caresses.
You were gone up as a rocket,
Bending your passages from right to left and from left to right
In the flat projection of a spiral.
The gods of drugged sleep attend me,
Wishing me well;
I am up to follow thee, Pallas.
Scheme | aaxb xcaabc dCcxdxaxC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0100010011 110011 1101000011 1110101 1101110 01101001111 11111100 100100101011 1 111010010 1 111110110 10111010 10111010 101100111101111 0010101010 01111011 1011 111110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 619 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 6, 9 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 159 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 20, 2023
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