Envoi
Beyond sea be thou sped, my song,And, by God, to my Lady sayThat in desirous, grief-filled wayMy nights and my days are full long.And command thou William the Long-SeerTo tell thee to my Lady dear,That comfort be her thoughts among.
About this text
Envoi is in the public domain. This text is taken from Personae, Project Gutenberg ebook #41162; 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, Envoi, in Personae (1909), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #41162, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/pound-personae/envoi-3.html, id L01223.
Form and metre
Envoi is 7 lines in a single stanza. The metre is iambic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 82%). 96% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 8.3 syllables.
See other poems in iambic tetrameter.
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 ABBACC- songA · sayB · wayB · longA · seerC · dearC · among
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. Read against iambic tetrameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Beyond sea be thou sped, my song, | 8 | ········ |
| And, by God, to my Lady say | 8 | ·····/˘· |
| That in desirous, grief-filled way | 9 | ··˘/˘··˘· |
| My nights and my days are full long. | 8 | ········ |
| And command thou William the Long-Seer | 9 | ·˘/·/˘··· |
| To tell thee to my Lady dear, | 8 | ·····/˘· |
| That comfort be her thoughts among. | 8 | ·/˘····· |
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