Analysis of The Return

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



See, they return; ah, see the tentative
Movements, and the slow feet,
The trouble in the pace and the uncertain
Wavering!

See, they return, one by one,
With fear, as half-awakened;
As if the snow should hesitate
And murmur in the wind,
and half turn back;
These were the "Wing'd-with-Awe,"
Inviolable.

Gods of the Wingèd shoe!
With them the silver hounds,
sniffing the trace of air!

Haie! Haie!
These were the swift to harry;
These the keen-scented;
These were the souls of blood.

Slow on the leash,
pallid the leash-men!


Scheme XXAX AXXXXXX XXX XXXX XX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (25%)
Etheree  (20%)
Metre 1101110100 100011 01000100010 100 1101111 1111010 1101110 010001 0111 100111 01000 110111 110101 100111 11 1001110 10110 100111 1101 10011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 526
Words 93
Sentences 9
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 7, 3, 4, 2
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 80
Words per stanza (avg) 18
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 03, 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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