The Faun

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



Ha! sir, I have seen you sniffing and snoozling
about among my flowers.
And what, pray, do you know about
horticulture, you capriped?
'Come, Auster, come Apeliota,
And see the faun in our garden.
But if you move or speak
This thing will run at you
And scare itself to spasms.'

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 22, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCCCDAEF
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 276
Words 54
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9

Ezra Pound

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

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