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.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 21, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme xxxxA xxxxA
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 415
Words 82
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 5

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