Analysis of Tradition, thou art for suckling children
Stephen Crane 1871 – 1900
Tradition, thou art for suckling children,
Thou art the enlivening milk for babes;
But no meat for men is in thee.
Then --
But, alas, we all are babes.
| Scheme | ABCDB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101111010 1100100111 11111101 1 1011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 159 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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