Analysis of Lucinda Matlock
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
I went to the dances at Chandlerville,
And played snap-out at Winchester.
One time we changed partners,
Driving home in the midnight of middle June,
And then I found Davis.
We were married and lived together for seventy years,
Enjoying, working, raising the twelve children,
Eight of whom we lost
Ere I had reached the age of sixty.
I spun, I wove, I kept the house, I nursed the sick,
I made the garden, and for holiday
Rambled over the fields where sang the larks,
And by Spoon River gathering many a shell,
And many a flower and medicinal weed--
Shouting to the wooded hills, singing to the green valleys.
At ninety-six I had lived enough, that is all,
And passed to a sweet repose.
What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness,
Anger, discontent and drooping hopes?
Degenerate sons and daughters,
Life is too strong for you--
It takes life to love Life.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLAMNAOEPCQR |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101011 0111110 111110 1010011101 011110 10100101011001 01010100110 11111 111101110 111111011101 110100110 1010011101 011101001001 010010001001 10101011010110 110111101111 0110101 111111100100 100010101 01001010 111111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 864 |
Words | 157 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 669 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 155 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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