Analysis of The way your little finger moved
Stephen Crane 1871 – 1900
AH, God, the way your little finger moved
As you thrust a bare arm backward
And made play with your hair
And a comb a silly gilt comb
Ah, God--that I should suffer
Because of the way a little finger moved.
| Scheme | ABCDEA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101110101 11101110 011111 00101011 1111110 01101010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 213 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 159 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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