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.


Scheme ABCCDCEFCGH
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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Edgar Lee Masters

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