Analysis of A man toiled on a burning road
Stephen Crane 1871 – 1900
A man toiled on a burning road,
Never resting.
Once he saw a fat, stupid ass
Grinning at him from a green place.
The man cried out in rage,
"Ah! Do not deride me, fool!
I know you --
All day stuffing your belly,
Burying your heart
In grass and tender sprouts:
It will not suffice you."
But the ass only grinned at him from the green place.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJGD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01110101 1010 11101101 10111011 011101 1110111 111 1110110 10011 010101 111011 101101111011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 347 |
| Words | 71 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 256 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 68 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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