Analysis of Robert Southey Burke
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
I spent my money trying to elect you Mayor
A. D. Blood.
I lavished my admiration upon you,
You were to my mind the almost perfect man.
You devoured my personality,
And the idealism of my youth,
And the strength of a high-souled fealty.
And all my hopes for the world,
And all my beliefs in Truth,
Were smelted up in the blinding heat
Of my devotion to you,
And molded into your image.
And then when I found what you were:
That your soul was small
And your words were false
As your blue-white porcelain teeth,
And your cuffs of celluloid,
I hated the love I had for you,
I hated myself, I hated you
For my wasted soul, and wasted youth.
And I say to all, beware of ideals,
Beware of giving your love away
To any man alive.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010101110 011 1101010011 1011101011 101010100 000100111 0011011100 0111101 0110101 01100101 1101011 01001110 01111110 11111 01101 11111001 011110 110011111 11011101 111010101 0111101101 011101101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 707 |
Words | 143 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 23 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 557 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 141 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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