Analysis of Doctor Meyers
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
No other man, unless it was Doc Hill,
Did more for people in this town than l.
And all the weak, the halt, the improvident
And those who could not pay flocked to me.
I was good-hearted, easy Doctor Meyers.
I was healthy, happy, in comfortable fortune,
Blest with a congenial mate, my children raised,
All wedded, doing well in the world.
And then one night, Minerva, the poetess,
Came to me in her trouble, crying.
I tried to help her out -- she died --
They indicted me, the newspapers disgraced me,
My wife perished of a broken heart.
And pneumonia finished me.
| Scheme | ABCDEFCCEGCDCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101011111 1111001111 01010101 011111111 11110101010 1110100100010 11001011101 110101001 011101001 111001010 11110111 10101010011 111010101 0010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 558 |
| Words | 106 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 431 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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