Analysis of Les Millwin

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



The little Millwins attend the Russian Ballet.
The mauve and greenish souls of the little Millwins
Were seen lying along the upper seats
Like so many unused boas.

The turbulent and undisciplined host of art students-
The rigorous deputation from ‘Slade’-
Was before them.

With arms exalted, with fore-arms
Crossed in great futuristic X's, the art students
Exulted, they beheld the splendours of Cleopatra

And the little Millwins beheld these things;
With their large and anaemic eyes they looked out upon
this configuration.

Let us therefore mention the fact,
For it seems to us worthy of record.


Scheme XAAA AXX AAX AXX XX
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 01010101001 01010110101 0110010101 11100110 01000010011110 0100111 1011 11010111 101010100110 01011011010 00101111 11101111101 10010 1111001 1111110101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 594
Words 99
Sentences 6
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 3, 3, 2
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 97
Words per stanza (avg) 19
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 11, 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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