Analysis of Pearl Fog
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
Open the door now.
Go roll up the collar of your coat
To walk in the changing scarf of mist.
Tell your sins here to the pearl fog
And know for once a deepening night
Strange as the half-meanings
Alurk in a wise woman's mousey eyes.
Yes, tell your sins
And know how careless a pearl fog is
Of the laws you have broken.
| Scheme | XXX XXXX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (50%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 10011 111010111 110010111 11111011 011101001 110110 10011011 1111 011100111 1011110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 321 |
| Words | 66 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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