Analysis of The Stream.
Robert Crawford 1959 (Bellshill)
God but knows what path
This small stream must take,
Through what gleams and glooms
Which the years shall make.
In what ways austere
May these waters glide
Ere they have their part
In the timeless tide!
| Scheme | ABCBDEFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111 11111 11101 10111 01101 11101 11111 00101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 203 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 163 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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