Grotesque
Frederic Manning 1882 (Sydney) – 1935 (Hampstead)
These are the damned circles Dante trod,
Terrible in hopelessness,
But even skulls have their humour,
An eyeless and sardonic mockery:
And we,
Sitting with streaming eyes in the acrid smoke,
That murks our foul, damp billet,
Chant bitterly, with raucous voices
As a choir of frogs
In hideous irony, our patriotic songs.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 318 |
Words | 55 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
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