Analysis of Lydia Humphrey
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
Back and forth, back and forth, to and from the church,
With my Bible under my arm
Till I was gray and old;
Unwedded, alone in the world,
Finding brothers and sisters in the congregation,
And children in the church.
I know they laughed and thought me queer.
I knew of the eagle souls that flew high in the sunlight,
Above the spire of the church, and laughed at the church,
Disdaining me, not seeing me.
But if the high air was sweet to them, sweet was the church to me.
It was the vision, vision, vision of the poets
Democratized!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10110110101 11101011 111101 101001 101001000010 010001 11110111 1110101111001 010110101101 01011101 110111111110111 1101010101010 010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 527 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 412 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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