Analysis of A man saw a ball of gold in the sky;
Stephen Crane 1871 – 1900
A man saw a ball of gold in the sky;
He climbed for it,
And eventually he achieved it --
It was clay.
Now this is the strange part:
When the man went to the earth
And looked again,
Lo, there was the ball of gold.
Now this is the strange part:
It was a ball of gold.
Aye, by the heavens, it was a ball of gold.
| Scheme | xaax BxxcBcc |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0110111001 1111 0010001011 111 111011 1011101 0101 1110111 111011 110111 11010110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 317 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 7 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 08, 2023
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