The Future Poetry

(Brent) #1
Poems in Quantitative Metres 373

Journey’s End^5


The day ends lost in a stretch of even,
A long road trod — and the little farther.
Now the waste-land, now the silence;
A blank dark wall, and behind it heaven.

(^5) Lines 1, 2, 4, epitrite, third paeon, trochee,
———|—|—.
In line 3, two double trochees,
——|——.

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