Coda

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



O My songs,
Why do you look so eagerly and so curiously into
people's faces,
Will you find your lost dead among them?

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 30, 2023

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Scheme ABCD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 122
Words 25
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4

Ezra Pound

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

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