Analysis of William Goode
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
To all in the village I seemed, no doubt,
To go this way and that way, aimlessly.
But here by the river you can see at twilight
The soft-winged bats fly zig-zag here and there --
They must fly so to catch their food.
And if you have ever lost your way at night,
In the deep wood near Miller's Ford,
And dodged this way and now that,
Wherever the light of the Milky Way shone through,
Trying to find the path,
You should understand I sought the way
With earnest zeal, and all my wanderings
Were wanderings in the quest.
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Metre | 1100101111 1111011100 11101011111 0111111101 11111111 01111011111 00111101 0111011 010011010111 101101 11011101 1101011100 0100001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 514 |
Words | 103 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 401 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 101 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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