Analysis of The Garrett
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are.
Come, my friend, and remember
t hat the rich have butlers and no friends,
And we have friends and no butlers.
Come, let us pity the married and the unmarried.
Dawn enters with little feet
like a gilded Pavlova
And I am near my desire.
Nor has life in it aught better
Than this hour of clear coolness
t he hour of waking together.
Scheme | XAXXX XXAAXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110111101111 1110010 1101110011 01110110 1111001000010 1101101 10101 01111010 11101110 11101110 1110110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 403 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 6 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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