Analysis of Ippolit Konovaloff
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
I was a gun-smith in Odessa.
One night the police broke in the room
Where a group of us were reading Spencer.
And seized our books and arrested us.
But I escaped and came to New York
And thence to Chicago, and then to Spoon River,
Where I could study my Kant in peace
And eke out a living repairing guns!
Look at my moulds! My architectonics!
One for a barrel, one for a hammer,
And others for other parts of a gun!
Well, now suppose no gun-smith living
Had anything else but duplicate moulds
Of these I show you -- well, all guns
Would be just alike, with a hammer to hit
The cap and a barrel to carry the shot,
All acting alike for themselves, and all
Acting against each other alike.
And there would be your world of guns!
Which nothing could ever free from itself
Except a Moulder with different moulds
To mould the metal over.
Scheme | ABCDECFGACHIJGKLMNGOJC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110110010 110011001 1011101010 0110100101 110101111 01101011110 111101101 0110100101 111111 1101011010 0101101101 110111110 110111001 11111111 11101101011 01001011001 1100110101 100111001 01111111 1101101101 0101011001 1101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 818 |
Words | 162 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 649 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 160 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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