Analysis of A Slant of Sun on Dull Brown Walls
Stephen Crane 1871 – 1900
A slant of sun on dull brown walls,
A forgotten sky of bashful blue.
Toward God a mighty hymn,
A song of collisions and cries,
Rumbling wheels, hoof-beats, bells,
Welcomes, farewells, love-calls, final moans,
Voices of joy, idiocy, warning, despair,
The unknown appeals of brutes,
The chanting of flowers,
The screams of cut trees,
The senseless babble of hens and wise men -
A cluttered incoherency that says at the stars:
'O God, save us!'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01111111 001011101 0110101 01101001 1001111 10111101 101110001001 0010111 010110 01111 0101011011 010111101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 449 |
Words | 78 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 11 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 171 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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