Analysis of Judson Stoddard
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
On a mountain top above the clouds
That streamed like a sea below me
I said that peak is the thought of Budda,
And that one is the prayer of Jesus,
And this one is the dream of Plato,
And that one there the song of Dante,
And this is Kant and this is Newton,
And this is Milton and this is Shakespeare,
And this the hope of the Mother Church,
And this -- why all these peaks are poems,
Poems and prayers that pierce the clouds.
And I said "What does God do with mountains
That rise almost to heaven?"
Scheme | ABCDCCEFGHAIE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010101 11101011 111110111 011101110 011101110 011101110 011101110 011100111 010110101 011111110 10011101 0111111110 111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 496 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 386 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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