Analysis of Each Small Gleam Was a Voice

Stephen Crane 1871 – 1900



Each small gleam was a voice,
A lantern voice --
In little songs of carmine, violet, green, gold.
A chorus of colours came over the water;
The wondrous leaf-shadow no longer wavered,
No pines crooned on the hills,
The blue night was elsewhere a silence,
When the chorus of colours came over the water,
Little songs of carmine, violet, green, gold.

Small glowing pebbles
Thrown on the dark plane of evening
Sing good ballads of God
And eternity, with soul's rest.
Little priests, little holy fathers,
None can doubt the truth of your hymning,
When the marvellous chorus comes over the water,
Songs of carmine, violet, green, gold.


Scheme AABCXXXCB XDXXXDCB
Poetic Form
Metre 111101 0101 010111010011 01011110010 0101111010 111101 01111010 101011110010 10111010011 11010 11011110 111011 00100111 101101010 11101111 10110110010 111010011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 637
Words 110
Sentences 5
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 9, 8
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 247
Words per stanza (avg) 54
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 19, 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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