Analysis of Good Night

Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)



Many ways to say good night.

Fireworks at a pier on the Fourth of July
spell it with red wheels and yellow spokes.
They fizz in the air, touch the water and quit.
Rockets make a trajectory of gold-and-blue
and then go out.

Railroad trains at night spell with a smokestack mushrooming a white pillar.

Steamboats turn a curve in the Mississippi crying a baritone that crosses lowland cottonfields to razorback hill.

It is easy to spell good night.
Many ways to spell good night.


Scheme A XXXXX X X AA
Poetic Form Etheree  (20%)
Metre 1011111 110110111 111110101 11001101001 101001001101 0111 11111101100110 11010001010010110111101 11101111 1011111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 480
Words 87
Sentences 9
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 5, 1, 1, 2
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 38
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 76
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 17, 2023

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Carl Sandburg

Carl Sandburg was an American writer and editor best known for poetry. more…

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