Analysis of W. Lloyd Garrison Standard
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
Vegetarian, non-resistant, free-thinker, in ethics a Christian;
Orator apt at the rhine-stone rhythm of Ingersoll.
Carnivorous, avenger, believer and pagan.
Continent, promiscuous, changeable, treacherous, vain,
Proud, with the pride that makes struggle a thing for laughter;
With heart cored out by the worm of theatric despair;
Wearing the coat of indifference to hide the shame of defeat;
I, child of the abolitionist idealism --
A sort of Brand in a birth of half-and-half.
What other thing could happen when I defended
The patriot scamps who burned the court house,
That Spoon River might have a new one,
Than plead them guilty? When Kinsey Keene drove through
The card-board mask of my life with a spear of light,
What could I do but slink away, like the beast of myself
Which I raised from a whelp, to a corner and growl?
The pyramid of my life was nought but a dune,
Barren and formless, spoiled at last by the storm.
Scheme | ABACDEFGHIJAKLMNOP |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01001010110010010 10011011101100 0100010010010 1001001001001 1101111001110 111110111001 1001101001101101 111001000100 01110011101 110111011010 0100111011 111011011 11110110111 011111110111 1111110110111 111101101001 010011111101 1001111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 916 |
Words | 161 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 730 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 159 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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