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 |
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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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