Analysis of Georgine Sand Miner

Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)



A step-mother drove me from home, embittering me.
A squaw-man, a flaneur and dilettante took my virtue.
For years I was his mistress -- no one knew.
I learned from him the parasite cunning
With which I moved with the bluffs, like a flea on a dog.
All the time I was nothing but "very private" with different men.
Then Daniel, the radical, had me for years.
His sister called me his mistress;
And Daniel wrote me: "Shameful word, soiling our beautiful love!"
But my anger coiled, preparing its fangs.
My Lesbian friend next took a hand.
She hated Daniel's sister.
And Daniel despised her midget husband.
And she saw a chance for a poisonous thrust:
I must complain to the wife of Daniel's pursuit!
But before I did that I begged him to fly to London with me.
"Why not stay in the city just as we have?" he asked.
Then I turned submarine and revenged his repulse
In the arms of my dilettante friend. Then up to the surface,
Bearing the letter that Daniel wrote me,
To prove my honor was all intact, showing it to his wife,
My Lesbian friend and everyone.
If Daniel had only shot me dead!
Instead of stripping me naked of lies,
A harlot in body and soul.


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Poetic Form
Metre 0110111111 01101011110 1111110111 111101010 1111101101101 10111101101011001 11001001111 11011110 010111011101001 1110101011 110011101 1101010 0100101010 01101101001 110110111001 1011111111111011 1110010111111 1111001101 0011111111010 1001011011 111101101101111 11001010 110110111 0111011011 01001001
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,135
Words 219
Sentences 20
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 25
Lines Amount 25
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 891
Words per stanza (avg) 215
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 21, 2023

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Edgar Lee Masters

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