Analysis of Piccadilly
Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)
Beautiful, tragical faces—
Ye that were whole, and are so sunken;
And, O ye vile, ye that might have been loved,
That are so sodden and drunken,
Who hath forgotten you?
O wistful, fragile faces, few out of many!
The crass, the coarse, the brazen,
God knows I cannot pity them, perhaps, as I should do;
But oh, ye delicate, wistful faces,
Who hath forgotten you?
| Scheme | abxbC x bcaC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
| Metre | 100110 110101110 0111111111 11110010 110101 110101011110 0101010 11110101011111 1111001010 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 362 |
| Words | 68 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 1, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 91 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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