Analysis of Andy the Night-Watch
Edgar Lee Masters 1868 (Garnett) – 1950 (Elkins Park)
In my Spanish cloak,
And old slouch hat,
And overshoes of felt,
And Tyke, my faithful dog,
And my knotted hickory cane,
I slipped about with a bull's-eye lantern
From door to door on the square,
As the midnight stars wheeled round,
And the bell in the steeple murmured
From the blowing of the wind;
And the weary steps of old Doc Hill
Sounded like one who walks in sleep,
And a far-off rooster crew.
And now another is watching Spoon River
As others watched before me.
And here we lie, Doc Hill and I
Where none breaks through and steals,
And no eye needs to guard.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01101 0111 0111 011101 01101001 1101101110 1111101 101111 001001010 1010101 001011111 10111101 0011101 01010110110 1101011 01111101 111101 011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 556 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 441 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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