Grass
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work.
I am the grass.
I cover all.
And pile them high at Gettysburg.
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years,
and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?
I am the grass.
Let me work.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified by tapani_s on April 26, 2021
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | xABx xxA xxxx Ba |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 332 |
Words | 67 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4, 2 |
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