Analysis of Gustav Richter
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
After a long day of work in my hot-houses
Sleep was sweet, but if you sleep on your left side
Your dreams may be abruptly ended.
I was among my flowers where some one
Seemed to be raising them on trial,
As if after-while to be transplanted
To a larger garden of freer air.
And I was disembodied vision
Amid a light, as it were the sun
Had floated in and touched the roof of glass
Like a toy balloon and softly bursted,
And etherealized in golden air.
And all was silence, except the splendor
Was immanent with thought as clear
As a speaking voice, and I, as thought,
Could hear a Presence think as he walked
Between the boxes pinching off leaves,
Looking for bugs and noting values,
With an eye that saw it all: --
"Homer, oh yes! Pericles, good.
Caesar Borgia, what shall be done with it?
Dante, too much manure, perhaps.
Napoleon, leave him awhile as yet.
Shelley, more soil. Shakespeare, needs spraying --"
Clouds, eh! --
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 100111101110 11111111111 111101010 1101110111 111101110 1110111010 1010101101 011001010 010111001 1100010111 101010101 010101 0111001010 11001111 101010111 110101111 010101011 101101010 1111111 101111 1010111111 10110101 0100110111 10111110 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 908 |
Words | 173 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 25 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 714 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 171 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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