Analysis of Jennie M'Grew
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
Not, where the stairway turns in the dark,
A hooded figure, shriveled under a flowing cloak!
Not yellow eyes in the room at night,
Staring out from a surface of cobweb gray!
And not the flap of a condor wing,
When the roar of life in your ears begins
As a sound heard never before!
But on a sunny afternoon,
By a country road,
Where purple rag-weeds bloom along a straggling fence,
And the field is gleaned, and the air is still,
To see against the sun-light something black,
Like a blot with an iris rim --
That is the sign to eyes of second sight....
And that I saw!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011001 0101010100101 110100111 1011010111 010110101 1011101101 10111001 1101001 10101 11011101011 0011100111 1101011101 10111101 1101111101 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 562 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 436 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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