Tenzone

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



Will people accept them?
(i.e. these songs).
As a timorous wench from a centaur
(or a centurion),
Already they flee, howling in terror.

Will they be touched with the verisimilitudes?
Their virgin stupidity is untemptable.
I beg you, my friendly critics,
Do not set about to procure me an audience.

I mate with my free kind upon the crags;
the hidden recesses
Have heard the echo ofmy heels,
in the cool light,
in the darkness.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 21, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXXX AXXX AXXXX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 421
Words 78
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 4, 5

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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic of the early modernist movement. more…

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