Salutation The Third Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBBDEBFBG HCIJ KLMBNBCBBBOPQRSTTOUU JN| Let us deride the smugness of 'The Times' GUFFAW | A |
| So much for the gagged reviewers | B |
| It will pay them when the worms are wriggling in their | C |
| vitals | B |
| These are they who objected to newness | B |
| Here are their tomb stones | B |
| They supported the gag and the ring | D |
| A little BLACK Box contains them | E |
| So shall you be also | B |
| You slut bellied obstructionist | F |
| You sworn foe to free speech and good letters | B |
| You fungus you continuous gangrene | G |
| - | |
| Come let us on with the new deal | H |
| Let us be done with pandars and jobbery | C |
| Let us spit upon those who pat the big bellies for profit | I |
| Let us go out in the air a bit | J |
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| Or perhaps I will die at thirty | K |
| Perhaps you will have the pleasure of defiling my | L |
| pauper's grave | M |
| I wish you joy I proffer you all my assistance | B |
| It has been your habit for long | N |
| to do away with good writers | B |
| You either drive them mad or else you blink at their | C |
| suicides | B |
| Or else you condone their drugs | B |
| and talk of insanity and genius | B |
| But I will not go mad to please you | O |
| I will not flatter you with an early death | P |
| Oh no I will stick it out | Q |
| Feel your hates wriggling about my feet | R |
| As a pleasant tickle | S |
| to be observed with derision | T |
| Though many move with suspicion | T |
| Afraid to say that they hate you | O |
| The taste of my boot | U |
| Here is the taste of my boot | U |
| Caress it | J |
| lick off the blacking | N |
Ezra Pound
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