Analysis of William and Emily

Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)



There is something about Death
Like love itself!
If with some one with whom you have known passion,
And the glow of youthful love,
You also, after years of life
Together, feel the sinking of the fire,
And thus fade away together,
Gradually, faintly, delicately,
As it were in each other's arms,
Passing from the familiar room --
That is a power of unison between souls
Like love itself!


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Poetic Form
Metre 1110011 1101 11111111110 0011101 11010111 01010101010 01101010 1000101000 11001101 10100101 110101100011 1101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 383
Words 71
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 303
Words per stanza (avg) 69
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Edgar Lee Masters

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