Salvationists II
Ah yes, my songs, let us resurrectThe very excellent term Rusticus.Let us apply it in all its opprobriumTo those to whom it applies.And you may decline to make them immortal.For we shall consider them and their stateIn delicateOpulent silence.
Words in this poem
- resurrect v. t.
- To take from the grave; to disinter. [See Resurrection.]
- shall v. i.
- To owe; to be under obligation for. [OE. shal, schal, imp. sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen,]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Salvationists II is in the public domain. This text is taken from Lustra of Ezra Pound, Project Gutenberg ebook #55564; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Ezra Pound, Salvationists II, in Lustra (1916), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #55564, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/pound-lustra/salvationists-ii.html, id L01270.
Form and metre
Salvationists II is 8 lines in a single stanza. 81% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 8.5 syllables. 4 lines end on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending. 50% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 -----AA- resurrect · rusticus · opprobrium · applies · immortal · stateA · delicateA · silence
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Ah yes, my songs, let us resurrect | 9 | ·······˘/ |
| The very excellent term Rusticus. | 10 | ·/˘/˘˘···· |
| Let us apply it in all its opprobrium | 12 | ··˘/····˘/˘˘ |
| To those to whom it applies. | 7 | ·····˘/ |
| And you may decline to make them immortal. | 11 | ···˘/···˘/˘ |
| For we shall consider them and their state | 10 | ···˘/˘···· |
| In delicate | 4 | ·/˘˘ |
| Opulent silence. | 5 | /˘˘/˘ |
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