Analysis of Peleg Poague
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
Horses and men are just alike.
There was my stallion, Billy Lee,
Black as a cat and trim as a deer,
With an eye of fire, keen to start,
And he could hit the fastest speed
Of any racer around Spoon River.
But just as you'd think he couldn't lose,
With his lead of fifty yards or more,
He'd rear himself and throw the rider,
And fall back over, tangled up,
Completely gone to pieces.
You see he was a perfect fraud:
He couldn't win, he couldn't work,
He was too light to haul or plow with,
And no one wanted colts from him.
And when I tried to drive him -- well,
He ran away and killed me.
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Metre | 10011101 11110101 110101101 111110111 01110101 1101001110 111111101 111110111 110101010 01110101 0101110 11110011 11011101 111111111 01110111 01111111 1101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 579 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 442 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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