Analysis of Francesca

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



You came in out of the night
And there were flowers in your hand,
Now you will come out of a confusion of people,
Out of a turmoil of speech about you.

I who have seen you amid the primal things
Was angry when they spoke your name
IN ordinary places.
I would that the cool waves might flow over my mind,
And that the world should dry as a dead leaf,
Or as a dandelion see-pod and be swept away,
So that I might find you again,
Alone.


Scheme XXXX XXXXXXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 1101101 01010011 1111110010110 110111011 11111010101 11011111 010010 111011111011 0101111011 1101001101101 11111101 01
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 430
Words 91
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 8
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 168
Words per stanza (avg) 45
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 31, 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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