Analysis of Dippold the Optician
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
What do you see now?
Globes of red, yellow, purple.
Just a moment! And now?
My father and mother and sisters.
Yes! And now?
Knights at arms, beautiful women, kind faces.
Try this.
A field of grain—a city.
Very good! And now?
A young woman with angels bending over her.
A heavier lens! And now?
Many women with bright eyes and open lips.
Try this.
Just a goblet on a table.
Oh I see! Try this lens!
Just an open space—I see nothing in particular.
Well, now!
Pine trees, a lake, a summer sky.
That’s better. And now?
A book.
Read a page for me.
I can’t. My eyes are carried beyond the page.
Try this lens.
Depths of air.
Excellent! And now?
Light, just light, making everything below it a toy world.
Very well, we’ll make the glasses accordingly.
Scheme | abacadEfagahEbigajakflimanf |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111 1111010 101001 110010010 101 11110010110 11 0111010 10101 011011010100 0100101 10101110101 11 10101010 111111 11101111000100 11 11010101 11001 01 10111 11111100101 111 111 10001 1111010011011 101110100100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 762 |
Words | 142 |
Sentences | 36 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 27 |
Lines Amount | 27 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 555 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 140 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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