Analysis of Fratres Minores
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
With minds still hovering above their testicles
Certain poets here and in France
Still sigh over established and natural fact
Long since fully discussed by Ovid.
They howl. They complain in delicate and exhausted metres
That the twitching of three abdominal nerves
Is incapable of producing a lasting Nirvana.
| Scheme | ABCCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111100011100 10101001 111001001001 11100111 111010100001010 10101101001 101001010010010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 311 |
| Words | 51 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 258 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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