Analysis of Hannah Armstrong
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
I wrote him a letter asking him for old times' sake
To discharge my sick boy from the army;
But maybe he couldn't read it.
Then I went to town and had James Garber,
Who wrote beautifully, write him a letter.
But maybe that was lost in the mails.
So I traveled all the way to Washington.
I was more than an hour finding the White House.
And when I found it they turned me away,
Hiding their smiles. Then I thought:
"Oh, well, he ain't the same as when I boarded him
And he and my husband worked together
And all of us called him Abe, there in Menard."
As a last attempt I turned to a guard and said:
"Please say it's old Aunt Hannah Armstrong
From Illinois, come to see him about her sick boy
In the army."
Well, just in a moment they let me in!
And when he saw me he broke in a laugh,
And dropped his business as president,
And wrote in his own hand Doug's discharge,
Talking the while of the early days,
And telling stories.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110101011111 1011111010 11011011 1111101110 1110011010 110111001 11101011100 111111010011 0111111101 1011111 111101111101 0101101010 01111111001 101011110101 11111101 101111101011 0010 1100101110 0111111001 01110110 010111101 100110101 01010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 911 |
Words | 188 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 23 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 708 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 184 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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