Analysis of Friend, Your White Beard Sweeps the Ground
Stephen Crane 1871 – 1900
Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground.
Why do you stand, expectant?
Do you hope to see it
In one of your withered days?
With your old eyes
Do you hope to see
The triumphal march of justice?
Do not wait, friend!
Take your white beard
And your old eyes
To more tender lands.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIEJ |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111101 1111010 111111 0111101 1111 11111 00101110 1111 1111 0111 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 285 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 215 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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