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On His Own Face In A Glass

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)

O strange face there in the glass!
O ribald company, O saintly host,
O sorrow-swept my fool,
What answer? O ye myriad
That strive? and play and pass,
Jest, challenge, counterlie!
I? I? I?
And ye?

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDACEF
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 196
Words 38
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
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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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