Analysis of Judge Somers
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
How does it happen, tell me,
That I who was the most erudite of lawyers,
Who knew Blackstone and Coke
Almost by heart, who made the greatest speech
The court-house ever heard, and wrote
A brief that won the praise of Justice Breese--
How does it happen, tell me,
That I lie here unmarked, forgotten,
While Chase Henry, the town drunkard,
Has a marble block, topped by an urn,
Wherein Nature, in a mood ironical,
Has sown a flowering seed?
| Scheme | AbcdefAghijk |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111011 11110110110 11101 111110101 01110101 0111011101 1111011 111101010 11100110 101011111 01100010100 1101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 446 |
| Words | 82 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 340 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 80 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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