Analysis of Imanuel Ehrenhardt
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
I began with Sir William Hamilton's lectures.
Then studied Dugald Stewart;
And then John Locke on the Understanding,
And then Descartes, Fichte and Schelling,
Kant and then Schopenhauer --
Books I borrowed from old Judge Somers.
All read with rapturous industry
Hoping it was reserved to me
To grasp the tail of the ultimate secret,
And drag it out of its hole.
My soul flew up ten thousand miles,
And only the moon looked a little bigger.
Then I fell back, how glad of the earth!
All through the soul of William Jones
Who showed me a letter of John Muir.
Scheme | ABCCDADEFGHDIJD |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 101111010010 1101010 011110010 01011010 1011 11111110 111100100 10110111 11011010010 0111111 11111101 01001101010 111111101 11011101 111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 549 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 439 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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