Analysis of Autumn Movement
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
I cried over beautiful things knowing no beautiful thing lasts.
The field of cornflower yellow is a scarf at the neck of the copper
sunburned woman, the mother of the year, the taker of seeds.
The northwest wind comes and the yellow is torn full of holes,
new beautiful things come in the first spit of snow on the northwest wind,
and the old things go, not one lasts.
| Scheme | A XX XXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110100110110011 01110101011011010 11001010101011 0111001011111 1100110011111011 00111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 385 |
| Words | 71 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 49 |
| Words per line (avg) | 12 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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