Analysis of Minerva Jones
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
I am Minerva, the village poetess,
Hooted at, jeered at by the Yahoos of the street
For my heavy body, cock-eye, and rolling walk,
And all the more when "Butch" Weldy
Captured me after a brutal hunt.
He left me to my fate with Doctor Meyers;
And I sank into death, growing numb from the feet up,
Like one stepping deeper and deeper into a stream of ice.
Will some one go to the village newspaper,
And gather into a book the verses I wrote? --
I thirsted so for love!
I hungered so for life!
Scheme | ABCDEAFAGHIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110100101 10111101101 111010110101 01011110 101100101 11111111010 0110111011011 111010010010111 1111101010 010010101011 11111 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 487 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 375 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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