Analysis of John Horace Burleson
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
I won the prize essay at school
Here in the village,
And published a novel before I was twenty-five.
I went to the city for themes and to enrich my art;
There married the banker’s daughter,
And later became president of the bank—
Always looking forward to some leisure
To write an epic novel of the war.
Meanwhile friend of the great, and lover of letters,
And host to Matthew Arnold and to Emerson.
An after dinner speaker, writing essays
For local clubs. At last brought here—
My boyhood home, you know—
Not even a little tablet in Chicago
To keep my name alive.
How great it is to write the single line:
“Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, roll!”
Scheme | ABCDEFEGHIJKLLCMN |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111 10010 0100100111101 11101011010111 11001010 0100110101 110101110 1111010101 11101010110 011101001100 11010101001 11011111 11111 11001010001 111101 1111110101 1111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 674 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 510 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 122 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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