Analysis of Crucible
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
Hot gold runs a winding stream on the inside of a green bowl.
Yellow trickles in a fan figure, scatters a line of skirmishes, spreads a chorus
of dancing girls, performs blazing ochre evolutions, gathers the whole show into
one stream, forgets the past and rolls on.
The sea-mist green of the bowl's bottom is a dark throat of sky crossed by
quarreling forks of umber and ochre and yellow changing faces.
| Scheme | X XXX XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111010110011011 10100011010111001010 110101101011001101 110101011 01111011010111111 1001110100101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
| Characters | 407 |
| Words | 74 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 54 |
| Words per line (avg) | 12 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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