Analysis of The Rest
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
O helpless few in my country, remnant enslaved!
Artists broken against her,
A-stray, lost in the villages,
Mistrusted, spoken-against,
Lovers of beauty, starved,
Thwarted with systems,
Helpless against the control;
You who can not wear yourselves out
By persisting to successes,
You who can only speak,
Who can not steel yourselves into reiteration;
You of the finer sense,
Broken against false knowledge,
You who can know at first hand,
Hated, shut in, mistrusted:
Take thought:
I have weathered the storm,
I have beaten out my exile.
| Scheme | X XAX XXX XAXX XXXX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110101101001 1010010 01100100 0101001 101101 10110 1001001 11111011 10101010 111101 111101010010 110101 1001110 1111111 1010010 11 111001 1110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 526 |
| Words | 88 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 3, 4, 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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