Analysis of At a Window
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
Give me hunger,
O you gods that sit and give
The world its orders.
Give me hunger, pain and want,
Shut me out with shame and failure
From your doors of gold and fame,
Give me your shabbiest, weariest hunger!
But leave me a little love,
A voice to speak to me in the day end,
A hand to touch me in the dark room
Breaking the long loneliness.
In the dusk of day-shapes
Blurring the sunset,
One little wandering, western star
Thrust out from the changing shores of shadow.
Let me go to the window,
Watch there the day-shapes of dusk
And wait and know the coming
Of a little love.
Scheme | AXXXAXA BXXXXXXCCXXB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110 1111101 01110 1110101 11111010 1111101 1111110 1110101 0111110011 011110011 1001100 001111 1001 110100101 111010111 1111010 1101111 0101010 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 584 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 12 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 224 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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