Analysis of I walked in a desert
Stephen Crane 1871 – 1900
I walked in a desert.
And I cried,
"Ah, God, take me from this place!"
A voice said, "It is no desert."
I cried, "Well, But --
The sand, the heat, the vacant horizon."
A voice said, "It is no desert."
| Scheme | abcAdeA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110010 011 1111111 01111110 1111 0101010010 01111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 208 |
| Words | 47 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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