Analysis of Homer Clapp
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
Often Aner Clute at the gate
Refused me the parting kiss,
Saying we should be engaged before that;
And just with a distant clasp of the hand
She bade me good-night, as I brought her home
From the skating rink or the revival.
No sooner did my departing footsteps die away
Than Lucius Atherton,
(So I learned when Aner went to Peoria)
Stole in at her window, or took her riding
Behind his spanking team of bays
Into the country.
The shock of it made me settle down,
And I put all the money I got from my father's estate
Into the canning factory, to get the job
Of head accountant, and lost it all.
And then I knew I was one of Life's fools,
Whom only death would treat as the equal
Of other men, making me feel like a man.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011101 0110101 1011101011 0110101101 1111111101 1010110010 110110101101 110100 11111110100 10101011010 01110111 01010 011111101 011101011111001 010101001101 110100111 0111111111 1101111010 11011011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 710 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 560 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 142 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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