Analysis of Fletcher McGee
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
She took my strength by minutes,
She took my life by hours,
She drained me like a fevered moon
That saps the spinning world.
The days went by like shadows,
The minutes wheeled like stars.
She took pity from my heart,
And made it into smiles.
She was a hunk of sculptor's clay,
My secret thoughts were fingers:
They flew behind her pensive brow
And lined it deep with pain.
They set the lips, and sagged the cheeks,
And drooped the eyes with sorrow.
My soul had entered in the clay,
Fighting like seven devils.
It was not mine, it was not hers;
She held it, but its struggles
Modeled a face she hated,
And a face I feared to see.
I beat the windows, shook the bolts.
I hid me in a corner--
And then she died and haunted me,
And hunted me for life.
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Metre | 1111110 1111110 11110101 110101 011111 010111 1110111 011011 1101111 1101010 11010101 011111 11010101 0101110 11110001 1011010 11111110 1111110 1001110 0011111 11010101 1110010 01110101 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 754 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 574 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 146 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 13, 2023
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