Analysis of If I should cast off this tattered coat,
Stephen Crane 1871 – 1900
If I should cast off this tattered coat,
And go free into the mighty sky;
If I should find nothing there
But a vast blue,
Echoless, ignorant --
What then?
| Scheme | ABCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111101 011010101 1111101 1011 1100 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 162 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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