Analysis of Reuben Pantier
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
Well, Emily Sparks, your prayers were not wasted,
Your love was not all in vain.
I owe whatever I was in life
To your hope that would not give me up,
To your love that saw me still as good.
Dear Emily Sparks, let me tell you the story.
I pass the effect of my father and mother;
The milliner's daughter made me trouble
And out I went in the world,
Where I passed through every peril known
Of wine and women and joy of life.
One night, in a room in the Rue de Rivoli,
I was drinking wine with a black-eyed cocotte,
And the tears swam into my eyes.
She though they were amorous tears and smiled
For thought of her conquest over me.
But my soul was three thousand miles away,
In the days when you taught me in Spoon River.
And just because you no more could love me,
Nor pray for me, nor write me letters,
The eternal silence of you spoke instead.
And the black-eyed cocotte took the tears for hers,
As well as the deceiving kisses I gave her.
Somehow, from that hour, I had a new vision --
Dear Emily Sparks!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11001110110 1111101 11101101 111111111 111111111 110011111010 110011110010 01101110 0111001 1111100101 110100111 1100100111 1110110111 00110111 1110100101 111010101 1111110101 00111110110 0101111111 111111110 00101011101 0011110110 111001010110 11110110110 11001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 990 |
Words | 201 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 25 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 776 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 199 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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