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
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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Carl Sandburg

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