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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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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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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