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  • Writer: W. H. Auden (1907-73)
  • Original Title: Petition
  • Source: Included in Auden's collection Poems
  • Written Time: Likely during the late 1920s or early 1930s
  • Published Date: 1930 (in Auden's Poems)
  • Form: Free verse
  • Genre: Lyric poem
  • Tone: Reflective
  • Point of View: First person
  • Total Lines: 14
  • Total Part: 1 (single stanza)
  • Setting: 
  • Time Setting: The early 20th century
  • Place Setting: Unspecified, general world/society

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