"Us Artists -- Before Public Was, or Grants, or Can Litter"

Margaret Avison 1918 (Cambridge) – 2007 (Toronto)



Fourth stanza:

One wore a stilts,
one wore a daubed top-hat.
Well, among us
we were satisfat.

from "Always Now: Collected Poems of Margaret Avison," volume 2, page 47 (Erin, ON: The Porcupine's Quill, 2004)
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Submitted on November 14, 2019

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXA X
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 212
Words 37
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 1

Margaret Avison

1918-2007, Canadian; won two Governor General's Awards for Poetry (1960 and 1990), Order of Canada (1985); Griffin Prize for Poetry (2003). more…

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