Analysis of Kinsey Keene
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
Your attention, Thomas Rhodes, president of the bank;
Coolbaugh Wedon, editor of the Argus;
Rev. Peet, pastor of the leading church;
A.D. Blood, several times Mayor of Spoon River;
And finally all of you, members of the Social Purity Club--
Your attention to Cambronne's dying words,
Standing with heroic remnant
Of Napoleon's guard on Mount Saint Jean
At the battle field of Waterloo,
When Maitland, the Englishman, called to them:
"Surrender, brave Frenchmen!"--
There at close of day with the battle hopelessly lost,
And hordes of men no longer the army
Of the great Napoleon
Streamed from the field like ragged strips
Of thunder clouds in the storm.
Well, that Cambronne said to Maitland
Ere the English fire made smooth the brow of the hill
Against the sinking light of day
Say I to you, and all of you,
And to you, O world.
And I charge you to carve it
Upon my stone.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101010110101 111001010 111010101 11101101110 01001111010101001 101011101 10101010 1010011111 10101110 1100100111 010110 1111110101001 0111110010 1010100 11011101 1101001 1111110 1010101101101 01010111 11110111 01111 0111111 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 881 |
Words | 158 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 23 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 684 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 154 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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