Analysis of Legends
Stephen Crane 1871 – 1900
A MAN builded a bugle for the storms to blow.
The focused winds hurled him afar.
He said that the instrument was a failure.
When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?"
He replied: "Because no one admired me."
A man said: "Thou tree!"
The tree answered with the same scorn: "Thou man!
Thou art greater than I only in thy possibilities."
A warrior stood upon a peak and defied the stars.
A little magpie, happening there, desired the soldier's plume, and so plucked it.
The wind that waves the blossoms sang, sang, sang from age to age.
The flowers were made curious by this joy.
"Oh, wind," they said, "why sing you at your labour, while we, pink beneficiaries, sing not, but idle, idle, idle from age to age?"
| Scheme | XXX XA AXX XX BXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01101010111 01011101 11101001010 1010011010101111 10101110101 01111 0110101111 11101110010100 01001010100101 0101100101001010111 01110101111111 01001100111 111111111111101001111010101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 782 |
| Words | 148 |
| Sentences | 14 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 3, 2, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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