Analysis of Aztec
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
You came from the Aztecs
With a copper on your fore-arms
Tawnier than a sunset
Saying good-by to an even river.
And I said, you remember,
Those fore-arms of yours
Were finer than bronzes
And you were glad.
It was tears
And a path west
and a home-going
when I asked
Why there were scars of worn gold
Where a man’s ring was fixed once
On your third finger.
And I call you
To come back
before the days are longer.
Scheme | XXXA AXXX XXXXXXAXXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101 10101111 1101 1011111010 0111010 11111 010110 0101 111 0011 00110 111 1101111 1011111 11110 0111 111 0101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 417 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 10 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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