Analysis of They
Harry Crosby 1898 (Boston) – 1929 (New York City)
Like mutilated skulls they roll
Across the soul's white sand
And only she can make a wall
And only she can understand
Let my experience be a lamp displayed
To light the untried lover to his maid.
| Scheme | ABCBDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1100111 010111 01011101 0101101 11010010101 1100110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 198 |
| Words | 39 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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