Analysis of Serepta Mason
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
My life's blossom might have bloomed on all sides
Save for a bitter wind which stunted my petals
On the side of me which you in the village could see.
From the dust I lift a voice of protest:
My flowering side you never saw!
Ye living ones, ye are fools indeed
Who do not know the ways of the wind
And the unseen forces
That govern the processes of life.
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| Metre | 1110111111 110101110110 1011111001011 101110111 110011101 110111101 111101101 000110 110010011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 362 |
| Words | 73 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 278 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 71 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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