Analysis of Thomas Rhodes
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
Very well, you liberals,
And navigators into realms intellectual,
You sailors through heights imaginative,
Blown about by erratic currents, tumbling into air pockets,
You Margaret Fuller Slacks, Petits,
And Tennessee Claflin Shopes --
You found with all your boasted wisdom
How hard at the last it is
To keep the soul from splitting into cellular atoms.
While we, seekers of earth's treasures,
Getters and hoarders of gold,
Are self-contained, compact, harmonized,
Even to the end.
Scheme | ABCDAAEFGHIJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011100 01000110100 1101101000 10110101010001110 11001011 001101 111111010 1110111 11011100110010 11101110 100111 11011010 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 477 |
Words | 77 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 387 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 75 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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