Analysis of Hamlet Micure
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
In a lingering fever many visions come to you:
I was in the little house again
With its great yard of clover
Running down to the board-fence,
Shadowed by the oak tree,
Where we children had our swing.
Yet the little house was a manor hall
Set in a lawn, and by the lawn was the sea.
I was in the room where little Paul
Strangled from diphtheria,
But yet it was not this room --
It was a sunny verandah enclosed
With mullioned windows,
And in a chair sat a man in a dark cloak,
With a face like Euripides.
He had come to visit me, or I had gone to visit him --
I could not tell.
We could hear the beat of the sea, the clover nodded
Under a summer wind, and little Paul came
With clover blossoms to the window and smiled.
Then I said: "What is 'divine despair,' Alfred?"
"Have you read 'Tears, Idle Tears'?" he asked.
"Yes, but you do not there express divine despair."
"My poor friend," he answered, "that was why the despair
Was divine."
Scheme | ABCDEFGEGHIJKLDMNOPQORSST |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 00100101010111 110010101 1111110 1011011 101011 11101101 1010110101 10010101101 110011101 1010100 1111111 11010101 1110 00011010011 10111 111110111111101 1111 1110110101010 10010101011 11010101001 11111010110 111110111 111111010101 111110111001 101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 921 |
Words | 191 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 25 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 710 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 183 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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