E.p. Ode Pour L'election De Son Sepulchre Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EEFE GHEI JAKA LMNO PQQQ EAEA RQQQ QSQS TQQQ UQCQ QCEC QQVQ WCWC QTQ AEQECEE EEXTYQUZQ EA2Q E EQQQ UA2AB2C C2D2 QQFor three years out of key with his time | A |
He strove to resuscitate the dead art | B |
Of poetry to maintain the sublime | A |
In the old sense Wrong from the start | B |
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No hardly but seeing he had been born | C |
In a half savage country out of date | D |
Bent resolutely on wringing lilies from the acorn | C |
Capaneus trout for factitious bait | D |
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Idmen gar toi panth hos eni troie | E |
Caught in the unstopped ear | E |
Giving the rocks small lee way | F |
The chopped seas held him therefore that year | E |
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His true Penelope was Flaubert | G |
He fished by obstinate isles | H |
Observed the elegance of Circe's hair | E |
Rather than the mottoes on sun dials | I |
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Unaffected by the march of events | J |
He passed from men's memory in l'an trentuniesme | A |
de son eage the case presents | K |
No adjunct to the Muses' diadem | A |
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II | - |
The age demanded an image | L |
Of its accelerated grimace | M |
Something for the modern stage | N |
Not at any rate an Attic grace | O |
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Not certainly the obscure reveries | P |
Of the inward gaze | Q |
Better mendacities | Q |
Than the classics in paraphrase | Q |
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The age demanded chiefly a mould in plaster | E |
Made with no loss of time | A |
A prose kinema not not assuredly alabaster | E |
Or the sculpture of rhyme | A |
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III | - |
The tea rose tea gown etc | R |
Supplants the mousseline of Cos | Q |
The pianola replaces | Q |
Sappho's barbitos | Q |
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Christ follows Dionysus | Q |
Phallic and ambrosial | S |
Made way for macerations | Q |
Caliban casts out Ariel | S |
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All things are a flowing | T |
Sage Heracleitus say | Q |
But a tawdry cheapness | Q |
Shall outlast our days | Q |
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Even the Christian beauty | U |
Defects after Samothrace | Q |
We see to kalon | C |
Decreed in the market place | Q |
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Faun's flesh is not to us | Q |
Nor the saint's vision | C |
We have the press for wafer | E |
Franchise for circumcision | C |
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All men in law are equals | Q |
Free of Pisistratus | Q |
We choose a knave or an eunuch | V |
To rule over us | Q |
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O bright Apollo | W |
Tin andra tin heroa tina theon | C |
What god man or hero | W |
Shall I place a tin wreath upon | C |
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IV | - |
These fought in any case | Q |
And some believing | T |
pro domo in any case | Q |
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Some quick to arm | A |
some for adventure | E |
some from fear of weakness | Q |
some from fear of censure | E |
some for love of slaughter in imagination | C |
learning later | E |
some in fear learning love of slaughter | E |
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Died some pro patria | E |
non dulce not et decor | E |
walked eye deep in hell | X |
believing old men's lies then unbelieving | T |
came home home to a lie | Y |
home to many deceits | Q |
home to old lies and new infamy | U |
usury age old and age thick | Z |
and liars in public places | Q |
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Daring as never before wastage as never before | E |
Young blood and high blood | A2 |
fair cheeks and fine bodies | Q |
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fortitude as never before | E |
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frankness as never before | E |
disillusions as never told in the old days | Q |
hysterias trench confessions | Q |
laughter out of dead bellies | Q |
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V | U |
There died a myriad | A2 |
And of the best among them | A |
For an old bitch gone in the teeth | B2 |
For a botched civilization | C |
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Charm smiling at the good mouth | C2 |
Quick eyes gone under earth's lid | D2 |
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For two gross of broken statues | Q |
For a few thousand battered books | Q |
Ezra Pound
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