Analysis of Ernest Hyde
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
My mind was a mirror:
It saw what it saw, it knew what it knew.
In youth my mind was just a mirror
In a rapidly flying car,
Which catches and loses bits of the landscape.
Then in time
Great scratches were made on the mirror,
Letting the outside world come in,
And letting my inner self look out.
For this is the birth of the soul in sorrow,
A birth with gains and losses.
The mind sees the world as a thing apart,
And the soul makes the world at one with itself.
A mirror scratched reflects no image—
And this is the silence of wisdom.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010 1111111111 011111010 00100101 1100101101 101 110011010 10011110 010110111 11101101010 0111010 0110110101 00110111101 010101110 011010110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 545 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 415 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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