Analysis of There was, before me,
Stephen Crane 1871 – 1900
There was, before me,
Mile upon mile
Of snow, ice, burning sand.
And yet I could look beyond all this,
To a place of infinite beauty;
And I could see the loveliness of her
Who walked in the shade of the trees.
When I gazed,
All was lost
But this place of beauty and her.
When I gazed,
And in my gazing, desired,
Then came again
Mile upon mile,
Of snow, ice, burning sand.
Scheme | aBCdaefGheGijBC |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (53%) |
Metre | 11011 1011 111101 011110111 101110010 01110110 11001101 111 111 11111000 111 00110010 1101 1011 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 379 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 281 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 74 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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