Analysis of A Slant of Sun on Dull Brown Walls



A slant of sun on dull brown walls,
A forgotten sky of bashful blue.

Toward God a mighty hymn,
A song of collisions and cries,
Rumbling wheels, hoof-beats, bells,
Welcomes, farewells, love-calls, final moans,
Voices of joy, idiocy, warning, despair,
The unknown appeals of brutes,
The chanting of flowers,
The screams of cut trees,
The senseless babble of hens and wise men -
A cluttered incoherency that says at the stars:
'O God, save us!'


Scheme AX XXXXXAXXXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 01111111 001011101 0110101 01101001 1001111 10111101 101110001001 0010111 010110 01111 0101011011 010111101 1111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 449
Words 78
Sentences 3
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 2, 11
Lines Amount 13
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 171
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 28, 2023

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Stephen Crane

Stephen Crane was an American politician from Elizabethtown who was a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776. more…

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