Analysis of Ami Green
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
Not "a youth with hoary head and haggard eye,"
But an old man with a smooth skin
And black hair!
I had the face of a boy as long as I lived,
And for years a soul that was stiff and bent,
In a world which saw me just as a jest,
To be hailed familiarly when it chose,
And loaded up as a man when it chose,
Being neither man nor boy.
In truth it was soul as well as body
Which never matured, and I say to you
That the much-sought prize of eternal youth
Is just arrested growth.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111010101 11111011 011 110110111111 0110111101 0011111101 1111111 0101101111 1010111 0111111110 1100101111 1011110101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 470 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 361 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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