Analysis of Rev. Lemuel Wiley

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



I preached four thousand sermons,
I conducted forty revivals,
And baptized many converts.
Yet no deed of mine
Shines brighter in the memory of the world,
And none is treasured more by me:
Look how I saved the Blisses from divorce,
And kept the children free from that disgrace,
To grow up into moral men and women,
Happy themselves, a credit to the village.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJ
Poetic Form Tetractys  (30%)
Etheree  (20%)
Metre 1111010 101010010 0011010 11111 11000100101 01110111 111101101 0101011101 11101101010 10010101010
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 356
Words 66
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 284
Words per stanza (avg) 64
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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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