Analysis of Horses and Men in Rain
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
Let us sit by a hissing steam radiator a winter's day, gray wind pattering frozen raindrops on the window,
And let us talk about milk wagon drivers and grocery delivery boys.
Let us keep our feet in wool slippers and mix hot punches--and talk about mail carriers and
messenger boys slipping along the icy sidewalks.
Let us write of olden, golden days and hunters of the
Holy Grail and men called "knights" riding horses in the rain, in the cold frozen rain for ladies they loved.
A roustabout hunched on a coal wagon goes by, icicles drip on his hat rim, sheets of ice wrapping
the hunks of coal, the caravanserai a gray blur in slant of rain.
Let us nudge the steam radiator with our wool slippers and write poems of Launcelot, the hero, and
Roland, the hero, and all the olden golden men who rode horses in the rain.
Scheme | XX AXXX XBAB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010110001011111011010 01110111010010001001 111101011001110010111000 100110010101 11111010101010 1010111101000100110111011 01110110111001111111110 0111010110111 1110110011011001101100100 10010010101011110001 |
Characters | 826 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 65 |
Words per line (avg) | 15 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 216 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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