Analysis of When the prophet, a complacent fat man
Stephen Crane 1871 – 1900
When the prophet, a complacent fat man,
Arrived at the mountain-top,
He cried: "Woe to my knowledge!
I intended to see good white lands
And bad black lands,
But the scene is grey."
| Scheme | ABCDDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010001011 0110101 1111110 101011111 0111 10111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 188 |
| Words | 36 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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