Analysis of Cooney Potter
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
I inherited forty acres from my Father
And, by working my wife, my two sons and two daughters
From dawn to dusk, I acquired
A thousand acres. But not content,
Wishing to own two thousand acres,
I bustled through the years with axe and plow,
Toiling, denying myself, my wife, my sons, my daughters.
Squire Higbee wrongs me to say
That I died from smoking Red Eagle cigars.
Eating hot pie and gulping coffee
During the scorching hours of harvest time
Brought me here ere I had reached my sixtieth year.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010010101110 0110111110110 11111010 010101110 101111010 111011101 1001011111110 111111 11111011001 101101010 10010101101 111111111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 497 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 396 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 91 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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