Analysis of Margaret Fuller Slack
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
I would have been as great as George Eliot
But for an untoward fate.
For look at the photograph of me made by Penniwit,
Chin resting on hand, and deep-set eyes --
Gray, too, and far-searching.
But there was the old, old problem:
Should it be celibacy, matrimony or unchastity?
Then John Slack, the rich druggist, wooed me,
Luring me with the promise of leisure for my novel,
And I married him, giving birth to eight children,
And had no time to write.
It was all over with me, anyway,
When I ran the needle in my hand
While washing the baby's things,
And died from lock-jaw, an ironical death.
Hear me, ambitious souls,
Sex is the curse of life.
Scheme | ABACDEAFGHIJKLMNO |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111100 1110011 11101011111 110110111 110110 11101110 111100010011 111011011 10110101101110 011011011110 011111 111101110 111010011 1100101 01111101001 110101 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 637 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 495 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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