Analysis of Dr. Siegfried Iseman
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
I said when they handed me my diploma,
I said to myself I will be good
And wise and brave and helpful to others;
I said I will carry the Christian creed
Into the practice of medicine!
Somehow the world and the other doctors
Know what's in your heart as soon as you make
This high-soured resolution.
And the way of it is they starve you out.
And no one comes to you but the poor.
And you find too late that being a doctor
Is just a way of making a living.
And when you are poor and have to carry
The Christian creed and wife and children
All on your back, it is too much!
That's why I made the Elixir of Youth,
Which landed me in the jail at Peoria
Branded a swindler and a crook
By the upright Federal Judge!
Scheme | ABCDECFEGHIJKELMANO |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111011010 11111111 0101010110 1111100101 010101100 101001010 1101111111 1110010 0011111111 011111101 01111110010 1101110010 0111101110 010101010 11111111 1111001011 110100110100 100100001 10011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 698 |
Words | 146 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 551 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 144 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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