Analysis of J. Milton Miles
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
Whenever the Presbyterian bell
Was rung by itself, I knew it as the Presbyterian bell.
But when its sound was mingled
With the sound of the Methodist, the Christian,
The Baptist and the Congregational,
I could no longer distinguish it,
Nor any one from the others, or either of them.
And as many voices called to me in life
Marvel not that I could not tell
The true from the false,
Nor even, at last, the voice that I should have known.
Scheme | AABCDEFGAHI |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010001001 111011111001001 1111110 10110100010 010000100 111100101 1101101011011 01101011101 10111111 01101 110110111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 434 |
Words | 84 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 343 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 82 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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