Analysis of Fog
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
| Scheme | AX XXAX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011 11011 1110 1010010 1101 0111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 111 |
| Words | 23 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 43 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 11 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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