Analysis of Ollie McGee
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
Have you seen walking through the village
A man with downcast eyes and haggard face?
That is my husband who, by secret cruelty
never to be told, robbed me of my youth and my beauty;
Till at last, wrinkled and with yellow teeth,
And with broken pride and shameful humility,
I sank into the grave.
But what think you gnaws at my husband's heart?
The face of what I was, the face of what he made me!
These are driving him to the place where I lie.
In death, therefore, I am avenged.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101010 011110101 11110111010 10111111110110 1111001101 011010100100 110101 1111111101 0111110111111 11101101111 0111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 487 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 371 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 93 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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