Analysis of Hare Drummer
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
Do the boys and girls still go to Siever's
For cider, after school, in late September?
Or gather hazel nuts among the thickets
On Aaron Hatfield's farm when the frosts begin?
For many times with the laughing girls and boys
Played I along the road and over the hills
When the sun was low and the air was cool,
Stopping to club the walnut tree
Standing leafless against a flaming west.
Now, the smell of the autumn smoke,
And the dropping acorns,
And the echoes about the vales
Bring dreams of life. They hover over me.
They question me:
Where are those laughing comrades?
How many are with me, how many
In the old orchards along the way to Siever's,
And in the woods that overlook
The quiet water?
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Metre | 101011111 11010101010 11010101010 1101110101 11011010101 11010101001 1011100111 1011011 1010010101 10110101 001010 00100101 1111110101 1101 111101 110111110 00110010111 0001110 01010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 686 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 8 |
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) | 129 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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