Analysis of Come To My Cantilations

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



Come my cantilations,
Let us dump our hatreds into one bunch and be done with them,
Hot sun, clear water, fresh wind,
Let me be free of pavements,
Let me be free of the printers.
Let come beautiful people
Wearing raw silk of good colour,
Let come the graceful speakers,
Let come the ready of wit,
Let come the gay of manner, the insolent and the exulting.
We speak of burnished lakes,
Of dry air, as clear as metal.


Scheme ABCAADEAFGAD
Poetic Form
Metre 111 1111010011101111 1111011 1111110 11111010 1110010 1011111 1101010 1101011 1101110010000010 111101 11111110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 412
Words 81
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 322
Words per stanza (avg) 79
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 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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