Analysis of Salvationists

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



I
Come, my songs, let us speak of perfection
We shall get ourselves rather disliked.

II
Ah yes, my songs, let us resurrect
The very excellent term Rusticus.
Let us apply it in all its opprobrium
To those to whom it applies.
And you may decline to make them immortal,
For we shall consider them and their state
In delicate
Opulent silence.

III
Come, my songs,
Let us take arms against this sea of stupidities-
Beginning with Mumpodorus;
And against this sea of vulgarities
Beginning with Nimmim;
And against this sea of imbeciles
All the Bulmenian literati.


Scheme AXX AXBCBXXXB ABBBBCBX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (35%)
Metre 1 1111111010 1110011001 1 11111101 01010011 110110110100 1111101 01101111010 1110101011 0100 10010 1 111 1111011111 01011 0011111 01011 001111100 101010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 545
Words 99
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 3, 9, 8
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 148
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 17, 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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