Analysis of Au Salon
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
Her grave, sweet haughtiness
Pleaseth me, and in like wise
Her quiet ironies.
Others are beautiful, none more, some less.
I suppose, when poetry comes down to facts,
When our souls are returned to the gods
And the spheres they belong in,
Here in the every-day where our acts
Rise up and judge us;
I suppose there are a few dozen verities
That no shift of mood can shake from us:
One place where we'd rather have tea
(Thus far hath modernity brought us)
'Tea' (Damn you!)
Have tea, damn the Caesars,
Talk of the latest success, give wing to some scandal,
Garble a name we detest, and for prejudice?
Set loose the whole consummate pack
to bay like Sir Roger de Coverley's
This our reward for our works,
sic crescit gloria mundi:
Some circle of not more than three
that we prefer to play up to,
Some few whom we'd rather please
than hear the whole aegrum vulgus
Splitting its beery jowl
a-meaowling our praises.
Some certain peculiar things,
cari laresque, penates,
Some certain accustomed forms,
the absolute unimportant.
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Metre | 0111 110011 010100 1011001111 10111001111 1101101101 0011010 10010011101 11011 101110110100 111111111 11111011 111010011 111 111010 1101001111110 100110101100 11011001 11111011 110011101 1110010 11011111 11011111 1111101 110111 101101 011010 1100101 111 1100101 0100010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 997 |
Words | 183 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 2, 3, 17 |
Lines Amount | 31 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 160 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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