This is an analysis of I Explain by Stephen Crane.
I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night,
The sweep of each sad lost wave,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXXaXcCDXbcCD
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 10101001000111 0101111 01001001110 0101001001 01110010101 10100011 101011010 10110011 1110100 01011101 110011010 10110011 1110100
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 13
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