Analysis of Julian Scott
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
Toward the last
The truth of others was untruth to me;
The justice of others injustice to me;
Their reasons for death, reasons with me for life;
Their reasons for life, reasons with me for death;
I would have killed those they saved,
And save those they killed.
And I saw how a god, if brought to earth,
Must act out what he saw and thought,
And could not live in this world of men
And act among them side by side
Without continual clashes.
The dust's for crawling, heaven's for flying --
Wherefore, O soul, whose wings are grown,
Soar upward to the sun!
Scheme | ABBCDEFGHIJKLMN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101 0111010111 01011001011 11011101111 11011101111 1111111 01111 0111011111 11111101 011101111 01011111 01010010 0111010110 1111111 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 548 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 429 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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