e/This Be The Verse

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has glosseng: "This Be The Verse" ("They fuck you up, your mum and dad") is a lyric poem in three verses of four iambic tetrameter on an alternating rhyme scheme, by the English poet Philip Larkin (1922–1985). It was written around April 1971, first published in the August 1971 issue of New Humanist, and appeared in the 1974 collection High Windows.
lexicalizationeng: This Be The Verse
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