Analysis of Paul McNeely
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
Dear Jane! dear winsome Jane!
How you stole in the room (where I lay so ill)
In your nurse's cap and linen cuffs,
And took my hand and said with a smile:
"You are not so ill -- you'll soon be well."
And how the liquid thought of your eyes
Sank in my eyes like dew that slips
Into the heart of a flower.
Dear Jane! the whole McNeely fortune
Could not have bought your care of me,
By day and night, and night and day;
Nor paid for your smile, nor the warmth of your soul,
In your little hands laid on my brow.
Jane, till the flame of life went out
In the dark above the disk of night
I longed and hoped to be well again
To pillow my head on your little breasts,
And hold you fast in a clasp of love --
Did my father provide for you when he died,
Jane, dear Jane?
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSA |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (25%) |
Metre | 111101 11100111111 011010101 011101101 111111111 010101111 10111111 01011010 110101010 11111111 11010101 11111101111 011011111 11011111 001010111 110111101 1101111101 011100111 11100111111 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 749 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 574 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 159 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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