Analysis of A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices
Stephen Crane 1871 – 1900
A newspaper is a collection of half-injustices
Which, bawled by boys from mile to mile,
Spreads its curious opinion
To a million merciful and sneering men,
While families cuddle the joys of the fireside
When spurred by tale of dire lone agony.
A newspaper is a court
Where every one is kindly and unfairly tried
By a squalor of honest men.
A newspaper is a market
Where wisdom sells its freedom
And melons are crowned by the crowd.
A newspaper is a game
Where his error scores the player victory
While another's skill wins death.
A newspaper is a symbol;
It is feckless life's chronicle,
A collection of loud tales
Concentrating eternal stupidities,
That in remote ages lived unhaltered,
Roaming through a fenceless world.
Scheme | AXXBCD XCB XXX XDX EEXACX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010010110100 11111111 11100010 10101000101 110010011010 1111111100 010101 1100111000101 10101101 0101010 1101110 01011101 010101 11101010100 1010111 0101010 11101100 0010111 1000101 10011011 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 729 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 3, 3, 3, 6 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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