Analysis of Lambert Hutchins
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
I have two monuments besides this granite obelisk:
One, the house I built on the hill,
With its spires, bay windows, and roof of slate;
The other, the lake-front in Chicago,
Where the railroad keeps a switching yard,
With whistling engines and crunching wheels,
And smoke and soot thrown over the city,
And the crash of cars along the boulevard, --
A blot like a hog-pen on the harbor
Of a great metropolis, foul as a sty.
I helped to give this heritage
To generations yet unborn, with my vote
In the House of Representatives,
And the lure of the thing was to be at rest
From the never-ending fright of need,
And to give my daughters gentle breeding,
And a sense of security in life.
But, you see, though I had the mansion house
And traveling passes and local distinction,
I could hear the whispers, whispers, whispers,
Wherever I went, and my daughters grew up
With a look as if some one were about to strike them;
And they married madly, helter-skelter,
Just to get out and have a change.
And what was the whole of the business worth?
Why, it wasn't worth a damn!
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Metre | 111100011101 10111101 1111100111 010011001 10110101 110100101 0101110010 0011101010 0110111010 10101001101 11111100 1010111111 00110100 00110111111 101010111 0111101010 0011010001 1111110101 010010010010 1110101010 01011011011 1011111001111 0110101010 11110101 0110110101 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,048 |
Words | 198 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
Lines Amount | 26 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 830 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 196 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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