This is an analysis of I Saw A Man Pursuing The Horizon by Stephen Crane.

I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXabXXba
  • Stanza lengths: 9,
  • Metre: 11010100010 11111 110110 101001 100100011 101101 101011 111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

i

Anaphora

i, you