Analysis of The Circuit Judge
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
Take note, passers-by, of the sharp erosions
Eaten in my head-stone by the wind and rain --
Almost as if an intangible Nemesis or hatred
Were marking scores against me,
But to destroy, and not preserve, my memory.
I in life was the Circuit judge, a maker of notches,
Deciding cases on the points the lawyers scored,
Not on the right of the matter.
O wind and rain, leave my head-stone alone!
For worse than the anger of the wronged,
The curses of the poor,
Was to lie speechless, yet with vision clear,
Seeing that even Hod Putt, the murderer,
Hanged by my sentence,
Was innocent in soul compared with me.
Scheme | ABCDDAEFGHIJFAD |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 111011011 10011110101 11110100100110 0101011 110101011100 10110101010110 10101010101 11011010 1101111101 111010101 010101 1111011101 10110110100 11110 1100010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 599 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 470 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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