Analysis of Envoi

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



Go, dumb-born book,
Tell her that sang me once that song of Lawes:
Hadst thou but song
As thou hast subjects known,
Then were there cause in thee that should condone
Even my faults that heavy upon me lie
And build her glories their longevity.
Tell her that sheds
Such treasure in the air,
Recking naught else but that her graces give
Life to the moment,
I would bid them live
As roses might, in magic amber laid,
Red overwrought with orange and all made
One substance and one colour
Braving time.
Tell her that goes
With song upon her lips
But sings not out the song, nor knows
The maker of it, some other mouth,
May be as fair as hers,
Might, in new ages, gain her worshippers,
When our two dusts with Waller's shall be laid,
Siftings on siftings in oblivion,
Till change hath broken down
All things save Beauty alone.


Scheme ABCDDEFGHIJKLLHMNONPQQLRSD
Poetic Form
Metre 1111 1011111111 1111 111101 1011011101 10111100111 0101010100 1011 110001 111110101 11010 11111 1101010101 101110011 110011 101 1011 110101 11110111 010111101 111110 1011010100 1101111111 11100100 111101 1111001
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 802
Words 155
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 26
Lines Amount 26
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 645
Words per stanza (avg) 153
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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