Analysis of Herbert Marshall

Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)



All your sorrow, Louise, and hatred of me
Sprang from your delusion that it was wantonness
Of spirit and contempt of your soul's rights
Which made me turn to Annabelle and forsake you.
You really grew to hate me for love of me,
Because I was your soul's happiness,
Formed and tempered
To solve your life for you, and would not.
But you were my misery. If you had been
My happiness would I not have clung to you?
This is life's sorrow:
That one can be happy only where two are;
And that our hearts are drawn to stars
Which want us not.


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Poetic Form
Metre 11100101011 1110101111 1100011111 111111000011 11011111111 011111100 1010 111111011 11011001111 11001111111 11110 11111010111 011011111 1111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 529
Words 106
Sentences 6
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 416
Words per stanza (avg) 104
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Edgar Lee Masters

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