Analysis of Rev. Lemuel Wiley
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
I preached four thousand sermons,
I conducted forty revivals,
And baptized many converts.
Yet no deed of mine
Shines brighter in the memory of the world,
And none is treasured more by me:
Look how I saved the Blisses from divorce,
And kept the children free from that disgrace,
To grow up into moral men and women,
Happy themselves, a credit to the village.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJ |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (30%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1111010 101010010 0011010 11111 11000100101 01110111 111101101 0101011101 11101101010 10010101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 356 |
Words | 66 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 10 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 284 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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