Analysis of Cassius Hueffer
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
They have Chiseled on my stone the words:
'His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him
That nature might stand up and say to all the world,
This was a man.'
Those who knew me smile
As they read this empty rhetoric.
My epitaph should have been:
'Life was not gentle to him,
And the elements so mixed in him
That he made warfare on life,
In the which he was slain.'
While I lived I could not cope with slanderous tongues,
Now that I am dead I must submit to an epitaph
Graven by a fool!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011101 11110001001101 110111011101 1101 11111 111110100 110111 1111011 001001101 111111 001111 111111111001 1111111011110 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 502 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 380 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 100 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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