Analysis of Deacon Taylor
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
I belonged to the church,
And to the party of prohibition;
And the villagers thought I died of eating watermelon.
In truth I had cirrhosis of the liver,
For every noon for thirty years,
I slipped behind the prescription partition
In Trainor's drug store
And poured a generous drink
From the bottle marked
"Spiritus frumenti."
Scheme | ABBCDBEFGG |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) |
Metre | 101101 010101010 00100111110100 01110101010 110011101 11010010010 0111 0101001 10101 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 324 |
Words | 58 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 262 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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