Analysis of Jonathan Swift Somers
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
After you have enriched your soul
To the highest point,
With books, thought, suffering, the understanding of many personalities,
The power to interpret glances, silences,
The pauses in momentous transformations,
The genius of divination and prophecy;
So that you feel able at times to hold the world
In the hollow of your hand;
Then, if, by the crowding of so many powers
Into the compass of your soul,
Your soul takes fire,
And in the conflagration of your soul
The evil of the world is lighted up and made clear --
Be thankful if in that hour of supreme vision
Life does not fiddle.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110111 10101 11110000101100100 010101010100 0100010010 01010100100 111110111101 0010111 111010111010 01010111 11110 000010111 0101011101011 1101011010110 11110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 578 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 464 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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