Analysis of Clarence Fawcett
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
The sudden death of Eugene Carman
Put me in line to be promoted to fifty dollars a month,
And I told my wife and children that night.
But it didn't come, and so I thought
Old Rhodes suspected me of stealing
The blankets I took and sold on the side
For money to pay a doctor's bill for my little girl.
Then like a bolt old Rhodes accused me,
And promised me mercy for my family's sake
If I confessed, and so I confessed,
And begged him to keep it out of the papers,
And I asked the editors, too.
That night at home the constable took me
And every paper, except the Clarion,
Wrote me up as a thief
Because old Rhodes was an advertiser
And wanted to make an example of me.
Oh! well, you know how the children cried,
And how my wife pitied and hated me,
And how I came to lie here.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLHAMNHFHO |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 010110110 1101110101101001 0111101011 111010111 110101110 0101101101 11011010111101 110111011 010110111001 110101101 01111111010 01101001 1111010011 010010010100 111101 011111100 01011101011 111110101 011110101 0111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 766 |
Words | 159 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 600 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 157 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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