Analysis of Race Suicide
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
'Get children,' says Commodus. Why unbar
The portals of the earth? Pre-natal dead
If you had entered here the god of war
Had slaughtered you to crown ambition's head!
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1101111 0101011101 1111010111 11011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 174 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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