Close To Greatness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEDFGDHCBIJ IKDJCLHMHJHK HJMNMCOCDCPCD QHK MKMR FCSat one stage in my life | A |
I met a man who claimed to have | B |
visited Pound at St Elizabeths | C |
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then I met a woman who not only | D |
claimed to have visited | E |
E P | D |
but also to have made love | F |
to him she even showed | G |
me | D |
certain sections in the | H |
Cantos | C |
where Ezra was supposed to have | B |
mentioned | I |
her | J |
- | |
so there was this man and | I |
this woman | K |
and the woman told me | D |
that Pound had never | J |
mentioned a visit from this | C |
man | L |
and the man claimed that the | H |
lady had had nothing to do | M |
with the | H |
master | J |
that she was a | H |
charlatan | K |
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and since I wasn't a | H |
Poundian scholar | J |
I didn't know who to | M |
believe | N |
but one thing I do | M |
know when a man is | C |
living | O |
many claim relationships | C |
that are hardly | D |
so | C |
and after he dies well | P |
then it's everybody's | C |
party | D |
- | |
my guess is that Pound | Q |
knew neither the lady or the | H |
gentleman | K |
- | |
or if he knew | M |
one | K |
or if he knew | M |
both | R |
- | |
it was a shameful waste of | F |
madhouse | C |
time | S |
Charles Bukowski
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