A Name For All
Harold Hart Crane 1899 (Garrettsville, Ohio) – 1932 (Gulf of Mexico)
Moonmoth and grasshopper that flee our page
And still wing on, untarnished of the name
We pinion to your bodies to assuage
Our envy of your freedom—we must maim
Because we are usurpers, and chagrined—
And take the wing and scar it in the hand.
Names we have, even, to clap on the wind;
But we must die, as you, to understand.
I dreamed that all men dropped their names, and sang
As only they can praise, who build their days
With fin and hoof, with wing and sweetened fang
Struck free and holy in one Name always.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABAB XCXC DEDE |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 525 |
Words | 100 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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