Analysis of Upon the road of my life,
Stephen Crane 1871 – 1900
Upon the road of my life,
Passed me many fair creatures,
Clothed all in white, and radiant.
To one, finally, I made speech:
"Who art thou?"
But she, like the others,
Kept cowled her face,
And answered in haste, anxiously,
"I am good deed, forsooth;
You have often seen me."
"Not uncowled," I made reply.
And with rash and strong hand,
Though she resisted,
I drew away the veil
And gazed at the features of vanity.
She, shamefaced, went on;
And after I had mused a time,
I said of myself,
"Fool!"
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101111 1110110 11010100 11100111 111 111010 1101 01001100 11111 111011 111101 011011 11010 110101 0110101100 1111 01011101 1111 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 503 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 19 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 369 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 92 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 27, 2023
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