Analysis of Eugenia Todd
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
Have any of you, passers-by,
Had an old tooth that was an unceasing discomfort?
Or a pain in the side that never quite left you?
Or a malignant growth that grew with time?
So that even in profoundest slumber
There was shadowy consciousness or the phantom of thought
Of the tooth, the side, the growth?
Even so thwarted love, or defeated ambition,
Or a blunder in life which mixed your life
Hopelessly to the end,
Will like a tooth, or a pain in the side,
Float through your dreams in the final sleep
Till perfect freedom from the earth-sphere
Comes to you as one who wakes
Healed and glad in the morning!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 1111111010010 101001110111 1001011111 11100110 11100100101011 1010101 1011011010010 1010011111 100101 1101101001 111100101 101101011 1111111 1010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 598 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 477 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 112 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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