This is an analysis of Ancestry by Stephen Crane.
ONCE I saw mountains angry,
And ranged in battle-front.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXabXXbccac
- Stanza lengths: 11,
- Metre: 1111010 110101 01010101 1111101110 11110111 0101 1001010 011010101 10111100110 1110101 1101010
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 11