Analysis of Ortus
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
How have I laboured?
How have I not laboured
To bring her soul to birth,
To give these elements a name and a centre!
She is beautiful as the sunlight, and as fluid.
She has no name, and no place.
How have I laboured to bring her soul into separation;
To give her a name and her being!
Surely you are bound and entwined,
You are mingled with the elements unborn;
I have loved a stream and a shadow.
I beseech you enter your life.
I beseech you learn to say ‘I’
When I question you;
For you are no part, but a whole,
No portion, but a being.
| Scheme | AAXXAXXB AXAXXXXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 11111 110111 111100010010 111001010110 1111011 1111110101010 110010010 10111001 11101010011 11101001 10111011 10111111 11101 11111101 1101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 536 |
| Words | 111 |
| Sentences | 9 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 206 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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