Epitaph of a Young Poet Who Died Before Having Achieved Success

Amy Lowell 1874 (Brookline) – 1925 (Brookline)



Beneath this sod lie the remains
Of one who died of growing pains.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme AA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 73
Words 15
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 2

Amy Lowell

Amy Lawrence Lowell was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. more…

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