Analysis of Iron
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
Guns,
Long, steel guns,
Pointed from the war ships
In the name of the war god.
Straight, shining, polished guns,
Clambered over with jackies in white blouses,
Glory of tan faces, tousled hair, white teeth,
Laughing lithe jackies in white blouses,
Sitting on the guns singing war songs, war chanties.
Shovels,
Broad, iron shovels,
Scooping out oblong vaults,
Loosening turf and leveling sod.
I ask you
To witness--
The shovel is brother to the gun.
Scheme | AAXBACXCA DDXB XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1 111 101011 0011011 110101 1010110110 1011101111 10110110 10101101111 10 11010 101101 100101001 111 110 010110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 440 |
Words | 77 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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