Analysis of Henry Layton
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
Whoever thou art who passest by
Know that my father was gentle,
And my mother was violent,
While I was born the whole of such hostile halves,
Not intermixed and fused,
But each distinct, feebly soldered together.
Some of you saw me as gentle,
Some as violent,
Some as both.
But neither half of me wrought my ruin.
It was the falling asunder of halves,
Never a part of each other,
That left me a lifeless soul.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011111 11110110 01101100 11110111101 10101 1101101010 11111110 11100 111 1101111110 1101001011 10011110 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 405 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 320 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 77 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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