Analysis of Should the wide world roll away
Stephen Crane 1871 – 1900
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Should the wide world roll away
Leaving black terror
Limitless night,
Nor God, nor man, nor place to stand
Would be to me essential
If thou and thy white arms were there
And the fall to doom a long way.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1 1011101 10110 1001 11111111 1111010 11011101 00111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 219 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 160 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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