From "hugh Selwyn Mauberly" Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EEFE GHEI JAKA| For 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 scene 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| In a half savage country out of date | D |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 pant hos eni Troiei | 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 |
Ezra Pound
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