Cumulatives
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
Storms have beaten on this point of land
And ships gone to wreck here
and the passers-by remember it
with talk on the deck at night
as they near it.
Fists have beaten on the face of this old prize-fighter
And his battles have held the sporting pages
and on the street they indicate him with their
right fore-finger as one who once wore
a championship belt.
A hundred stories have been published and a thousand rumored
About why this tall dark man has divorced two beautiful
young women
And married a third who resembles the first two
and they shake their heads and say, "There he
goes,"
when he passes by in sunny weather or in rain
along the city streets.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXAXA XXXXX XXXXXXXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 664 |
Words | 125 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 8 |
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