Analysis of Enoch Dunlap
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
How many times, during the twenty years
I was your leader, friends of Spoon River,
Did you neglect the convention and caucus,
And leave the burden on my hands
Of guarding and saving the people's cause? --
Sometimes because you were ill;
Or your grandmother was ill;
Or you drank too much and fell asleep;
Or else you said: "He is our leader,
All will be well; he fights for us;
We have nothing to do but follow."
But oh, how you cursed me when I fell,
And cursed me, saying I had betrayed you,
In leaving the caucus room for a moment,
When the people's enemies, there assembled,
Waited and watched for a chance to destroy
The Sacred Rights of the People.
You common rabble! I left the caucus
To go to the urinal.
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Metre | 1101100101 1111011110 11010010010 01010111 1100100101 0101101 111011 111110101 1111111010 11111111 111011110 111111111 0111011011 01001011010 10101001010 1001101101 01011010 1101011010 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 702 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 549 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 135 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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