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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