Analysis of You say you are holy,
Stephen Crane 1871 – 1900
You say you are holy,
And that
Because I have not seen you sin.
Aye, but there are those
Who see you sin, my friend.
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Tanka (40%) Lanturne (40%) |
| Metre | 111110 01 01111111 11111 111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 124 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 87 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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