Analysis of Frank Drummer
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
Out of a cell into this darkened space --
The end at twenty-five!
My tongue could not speak what stirred within me,
And the village thought me a fool.
Yet at the start there was a clear vision,
A high and urgent purpose in my soul
Which drove me on trying to memorize
The Encyclopedia Britannica!
| Scheme | ABCDEFGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101011101 011101 1111111011 00101101 1101110110 0101010011 111110110 0001000100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 297 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 233 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 19, 2023
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