Analysis of Dow Kritt
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
Samuel is forever talking of his elm --
But I did not need to die to learn about roots:
I, who dug all the ditches about Spoon River.
Look at my elm!
Sprung from as good a seed as his,
Sown at the same time,
It is dying at the top:
Not from lack of life, nor fungus,
Nor destroying insect, as the sexton thinks.
Look, Samuel, where the roots have struck rock,
And can no further spread.
And all the while the top of the tree
Is tiring itself out, and dying,
Trying to grow.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10101010111 111111111011 111101001110 1111 11110111 11011 1110101 11111110 1010110101 110101111 011101 010101101 110011010 1011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 468 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 358 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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