Analysis of Schroeder the Fisherman
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
I sat on the bank above Bernadotte
And dropped crumbs in the water,
Just to see the minnows bump each other,
Until the strongest got the prize.
Or I went to my little pasture,
Where the peaceful swine were asleep in the wallow,
Or nosing each other lovingly,
And emptied a basket of yellow corn,
And watched them push and squeal and bite,
And trample each other to get the corn.
And I saw how Christian Dallman's farm,
Of more than three thousand acres,
Swallowed the patch of Felix Schmidt,
As a bass will swallow a minnow
And I say if there's anything in man --
Spirit, or conscience, or breath of God
That makes him different from fishes or hogs,
I'd like to see it work!
Scheme | ABBCBDEFAFGHADIAJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101011 0110010 1110101110 01010101 111111010 101010010010 110110100 0100101101 01110101 0101101101 01111011 11111010 10011101 101110010 011111001 101101111 11110011011 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 665 |
Words | 129 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 527 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 127 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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