Analysis of Amelia Garrick

Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)



Yes, here I lie close to a stunted rose bush
In a forgotten place near the fence
Where the thickets from Siever's woods
Have crept over, growing sparsely.
And you, you are a leader in New York,
The wife of a noted millionaire,
A name in the society columns,
Beautiful, admired, magnified perhaps
By the mirage of distance.
You have succeeded, I have failed
In the eyes of the world.
You are alive, I am dead.
Yet I know that I vanquished your spirit;
And I know that lying here far from you,
Unheard of among your great friends
In the brilliant world where you move,
I am really the unconquerable power over your life
That robs it of complete triumph.


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Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 642
Words 123
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 512
Words per stanza (avg) 121
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Edgar Lee Masters

Edgar Lee Masters was an American poet, biographer, and dramatist. more…

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