Analysis of Unwind my riddle
Stephen Crane 1871 – 1900
UNWIND my riddle.
Cruel as hawks the hours fly;
Wounded men seldom come home to die;
The hard waves see an arm flung high;
Scorn hits strong because of a lie;
Yet there exists a mystic tie.
Unwind my riddle.
| Scheme | AbbbbbA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01110 10110101 101101111 01111111 11101101 11010101 01110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 215 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 161 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 20, 2023
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