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The Lyric In A Time of War

Eloise Klein Healy 1943

Let my music be found wanting
in comparison
to yours (as it must)

let me be found loving
(as you were)
extravagantly the beautiful

let me find you
and the song (forever)
between us

in these terrible times

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Written on 2007

Submitted by Drone232 on June 28, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXX ABX XBX X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 207
Words 41
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 1
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Eloise Klein Healy

Born in El Paso, Texas, Eloise Klein Healy grew up in rural Iowa. Healy’s crisp, image- and narrative-driven poems often explore community, sexuality, and the nature of home. On the radio program Writers on Writing, Healy discussed her work’s attention to “the influence of place on people.” Addressing the role of the open-air California landscape and the details of daily life that often ground her poems, Healy noted, “The way you are in the world is also the way you are in your head.” more…

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