Analysis of Nellie Clark
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
I was only eight years old;
And before I grew up and knew what it meant
I had no words for it, except
That I was frightened and told my Mother;
And that my Father got a pistol
And would have killed Charlie, who was a big boy,
Fifteen years old, except for his Mother.
Nevertheless the story clung to me.
But the man who married me, a widower of thirty-five,
Was a newcomer and never heard it
Till two years after we were married.
Then he considered himself cheated,
And the village agreed that I was not really a virgin.
Well, he deserted me, and I died
The following winter.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111 00111101111 11111101 1111001110 011101010 01111011011 0111011110 001010111 101110101001101 101001011 111101010 110100110 001001111110010 110101011 010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 569 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 448 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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