Analysis of You tell me this is God?
Stephen Crane 1871 – 1900
You tell me this is God?
I tell you this is a printed list,
A burning candle, and an ass.
Scheme | ABC |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Tercet |
Metre | 111111 111110101 01010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 97 |
Words | 22 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 3 |
Lines Amount | 3 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 27, 2023
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