Analysis of Choices
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
They offer you many things,
I a few.
Moonlight on the play of fountains at night
With water sparkling a drowsy monotone,
Bare-shouldered, smiling women and talk
And a cross-play of loves and adulteries
And a fear of death
and a remembering of regrets:
All this they offer you.
I come with:
salt and bread
a terrible job of work
and tireless war;
Come and have now:
hunger.
danger
and hate.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101101 101 110111011 1101001010 110101001 00111101 00111 000100101 111101 111 101 0100111 01001 1011 10 10 01 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 394 |
Words | 73 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 17 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 306 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 71 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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