Analysis of There was crimson clash of war.
Stephen Crane 1871 – 1900
There was crimson clash of war.
Lands turned black and bare;
Women wept;
Babes ran, wondering.
There came one who understood not these things.
He said, "Why is this?"
Whereupon a million strove to answer him.
There was such intricate clamour of tongues,
That still the reason was not.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHI |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (22%) |
| Metre | 1110111 11101 101 11100 111101111 11111 10101011101 111100111 1101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 292 |
| Words | 52 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 223 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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