Analysis of Fast rode the knight
Stephen Crane 1871 – 1900
Fast rode the knight
With spurs, hot and reeking,
Ever waving an eager sword,
"To save my lady!"
Fast rode the knight,
And leaped from saddle to war.
Men of steel flickered and gleamed
Like riot of silver lights,
And the gold of the knight's good banner
Still waved on a castle wall.
. . . . . . . . . . . .
A horse,
Blowing, staggering, bloody thing,
Forgotten at foot of castle wall.
A horse
Dead at foot of castle wall.
| Scheme | AbcdAefghi JbiJi |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101 111010 10101101 11110 1101 0111011 1111001 1101101 001101110 1110101 1 01 10100101 010111101 01 1111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 430 |
| Words | 76 |
| Sentences | 18 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 16 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 309 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 85 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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