Analysis of The Fault of It

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



Some may have blamed us that we cease to speak
Of things we spoke of in our verses early,
Saying: a lovely voice is such as such;
Saying: that lady's eyes were sad last week,
Wherein the world's whole joy is born and dies;
Saying: she hath this way or that, this much
Of grace, this way or that, this much
Of grace, this little misericorde;
Ask us no further word;
If we were proud, then proud to be so wise
Ask us no more of all the things ye heard;
We may not speak of them, they touch us nearly.


Scheme ABCADCCEEDEB
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111111 111110101010 1001011111 1011010111 0101111101 1011111111 11111111 111101 111101 1101111111 1111110111 11111111110
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 495
Words 103
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 379
Words per stanza (avg) 101
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 22, 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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