Analysis of Professor Newcomer
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
Everyone laughed at Col. Prichard
For buying an engine so powerful
That it wrecked itself, and wrecked the grinder
He ran it with.
But here is a joke of cosmic size:
The urge of nature that made a man
Evolve from his brain a spiritual life --
Oh miracle of the world! --
The very same brain with which the ape and wolf
Get food and shelter and procreate themselves.
Nature has made man do this,
In a world where she gives him nothing to do
After all -- (though the strength of his soul goes round
In a futile waste of power.
To gear itself to the mills of the gods) --
But get food and shelter and procreate himself!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011110 1101101100 1110101010 1111 111011101 011101101 01111010001 1100101 01011110101 11010010101 1011111 00111111011 10110111111 00101110 1101101101 111010010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 609 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 477 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 121 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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