Analysis of It Is Much
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
Women of night life amid the lights
Where the line of your full, round throats
Matches in gleam the glint of your eyes
And the ring of your heart-deep laughter:
It is much to be warm and sure of to-morrow.
Women of night life along the shadows,
Lean at your throats and skulking the walls,
Gaunt as a bitch worn to the bone,
Under the paint of your smiling faces:
It is much to be warm and sure of to-morrow.
| Scheme | xxxxA xxxxA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 101110101 10111111 100101111 001111110 111111011110 101110101 11110101 11011101 1001111010 111111011110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 415 |
| Words | 82 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 159 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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