Analysis of Further Instructions
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
Come, my songs, let us express our baser passions.
Let us express our envy for the man with a steady job and no worry about the future.
You are very idle, my songs,
I fear you will come to a bad end.
You stand about the streets, You loiter at the corners and bus-stops,
You do next to nothing at all.
You do not even express our inner nobilitys,
You will come to a very bad end.
And I? I have gone half-cracked.
I have talked to you so much that I almost see you about me,
Insolent little beasts! Shameless! Devoid of clothing!
But you, newest song of the lot,
You are not old enough to have done much mischief.
I will get you a green coat out of China
With dragons worked upon it.
I will get you the scarlet silk trousers
From the statue of the infant Christ at Santa Maria Novella;
Lest they say we are lacking in taste,
Or that there is no caste in this family.
Scheme | AXXBXX AB XCX XXDXXDXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111101101010 1101101010110101011001010 11101011 111111011 1101011101010011 11111011 111100110101 111101011 0111111 111111111111011 1001011001110 11101101 111101111110 11110111110 1101011 1111010110 10110101110010010 111111001 11111101100 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 866 |
Words | 174 |
Sentences | 14 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 2, 3, 8 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 167 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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