Analysis of Conrad Siever
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
Not in that wasted garden
Where bodies are drawn into grass
That feeds no flocks, and into evergreens
That bear no fruit --
There where along the shaded walks
Vain sighs are heard,
And vainer dreams are dreamed
Of close communion with departed souls --
But here under the apple tree
I loved and watched and pruned
With gnarled hands
In the long, long years;
Here under the roots of this northern-spy
To move in the chemic change and circle of life,
Into the soil and into the flesh of the tree,
And into the living epitaphs
Of redder apples!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011010 11011011 111100110 1111 11010101 1111 01111 1101010101 11100101 110101 111 00111 1100111101 11001101011 010100101101 00101010 11010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 533 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 430 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 100 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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