Close To Greatness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEDFGDHCBIJ IKDJCLHMHJHK HJMNMCOCDCPCD QHK MKMR FCS| at one stage in my life | A |
| I met a man who claimed to have | B |
| visited Pound at St Elizabeths | C |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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