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The New Cake Of Soap

Ezra Pound 1885 (Hailey) – 1972 (Venice)



Lo, how it gleams and glistens in the sun
Like the cheek of a Chesterton.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 22, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AA
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 80
Words 17
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 2

Ezra Pound

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

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