Analysis of Aner Clute
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
Over and over they used to ask me,
While buying the wine or the beer,
In Peoria first, and later in Chicago,
Denver, Frisco, New York, wherever I lived,
How I happened to lead the life,
And what was the start of it.
Well, I told them a silk dress,
And a promise of marriage from a rich man --
(It was Lucius Atherton).
But that was not really it at all.
Suppose a boy steals an apple
From the tray at the grocery store,
And they all begin to call him a thief,
The editor, minister, judge, and all the people --
"A thief," "a thief," "a thief," wherever he goes.
And he can't get work, and he can't get bread
Without stealing it, why, the boy will steal.
It's the way the people regard the theft of the apple
That makes the boy what he is.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMKNOPKQ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001011111 11001101 001001010001 10101101011 11101101 0110111 1111011 00101101011 1110100 111110111 01011110 101101001 0110111101 0100100101010 01010101011 0111101111 0110110111 10101001011010 1101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 728 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 548 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 148 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 16, 2023
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