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 |
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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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