The punctuation of In a Station of the Metro is only half the story. As it
first appeared in Poetry in 1913, there were significant spaces between
the words. I don't have it with me, but it looked something like this:

                        The apparition    of these faces    in the crowd
                        Petals    on a wet,  black   bough.
As far as I know, the poem has never been reprinted that way.

                                        J, Korg
On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Tim Romano wrote:

> I've had my nose in medieval english texts lately, and both my spelling and
> punctuation are the worse for it. Let me correct the punctuation and the
> spelling of  "In a Station of the Metro":
>
> The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
> Petals on a wet, black bough.
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> Tim Romano
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