Portrait D'une Femme Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFGEHIJKLKMLEEE ENEOEPQFRL| Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea | A |
| London has swept about you this score years | B |
| And bright ships left you this or that in fee | A |
| Ideas old gossip oddments of all things | C |
| Strange spars of knowledge and dimmed wares of price | D |
| Great minds have sought you lacking someone else | E |
| You have been second always Tragical | F |
| No You preferred it to the usual thing | G |
| One dull man dulling and uxorious | E |
| One average mind with one thought less each year | H |
| Oh you are patient I have seen you sit | I |
| Hours where something might have floated up | J |
| And now you pay one Yes you richly pay | K |
| You are a person of some interest one comes to you | L |
| And takes strange gain away | K |
| Trophies fished up some curious suggestion | M |
| Fact that leads nowhere and a tale for two | L |
| Pregnant with mandrakes or with something else | E |
| That might prove useful and yet never proves | E |
| That never fits a corner or shows use | E |
| Or finds its hour upon the loom of days | E |
| The tarnished gaudy wonderful old work | N |
| Idols and ambergris and rare inlays | E |
| These are your riches your great store and yet | O |
| For all this sea hoard of deciduous things | E |
| Strange woods half sodden and new brighter stuff | P |
| In the slow float of differing light and deep | Q |
| No there is nothing In the whole and all | F |
| Nothing that's quite your own | R |
| Yet this is you | L |
Ezra Pound
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