Analysis of Guido Invites You Thus
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
‘Lappo I leave behind and Dante too,
Lo, I would sail the seas with thee alone!
Talk me no love talk, no bought-cheap fiddl’ry,
Mine is the ship and thine the merchandise,
All the blind earth knows not th'emprise
Whereto thou calledst and whereto I call.
Lo, I have seen thee bound about with dreams,
Lo, I have known thy heart and its desire;
Life, all of it, my sea, and all men's streams
Are fused in it as flames of an altar fire !
Lo, thou hast voyaged not! The ship is mine.'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010101 1111011101 111111111 110101010 1011111101 1110111 1111110111 11111101010 1111110111 110111111010 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 483 |
Words | 96 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 5 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 182 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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