Analysis of On The Retirement Of Professor Edgar



All is gray
When duty is done;
Headworn derby, tattered brown-
Pipe in hand,
Last look around,
The forty and seven years
Soon to be memento...
And what may have seemed
As laudable repose,
Was not to the mentor
In his wooden regal chair,
Packing away his name
With his chalk-stained fingers.


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLM
Poetic Form
Metre 111 11011 110101 101 1101 0100101 111010 01111 110001 11101 0110101 100111 111110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 278
Words 52
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 227
Words per stanza (avg) 52
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Submitted on May 02, 2011

Modified on April 27, 2023

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Christine Elaine Gwaltney

Born 11/28/1966 Passaic, NJI grew up in a small town northeastern PA. Poetry is my first love. I am inspired by Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, Donne. I feel misplaced in this time. I long for the 1800's. I hope you enjoy my poetry as much as I do. Much of what I say is mostly unspoken.... more…

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