Analysis of Franklin Jones
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
If I could have lived another year
I could have finished my flying machine,
And become rich and famous.
Hence it is fitting the workman
Who tried to chisel a dove for me
Made it look more like a chicken.
For what is it all but being hatched,
And running about the yard,
To the day of the block?
Save that a man has an angel's brain,
And sees the ax from the first!
| Scheme | ABCDEDFGHIJ |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111110101 1111011001 0011010 11110010 111100111 11111010 111111101 0100101 101101 11011111 0101101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 362 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 282 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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