Another Bit And An Offer

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



I see by the morning papers
That America's sturdy sons
Have started a investigation
Of the making of guns.

The morning paper tells me
They have asked the senate to guess
Whether Mr. Dupont and the gun-sharks
Have influence with the press.

I sit alone in the twilight
After my work is done
And wonder if my day's three and eight-pence
Would count on the price of a gun.

Was I started wrong as a kiddie,
And would my old man have been smarter
To send me to work in Vickers
Instead of being a carter?

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 15, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCB DEXE XCXC DFAF
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 490
Words 98
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4

Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic of the early modernist movement. more…

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