Analysis of Baby Vamps

Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)



Baby vamps, is it harder work than it used to be?
Are the new soda parlors worse than the old time saloons?
Baby vamps, do you have jobs in the day time or is this all you do? do you come out only at night?
In the winter at the skating rinks, in the summer at the roller coaster parks,
Wherever figure eights are carved, by skates in winter, by roller coasters in summer,
Wherever the whirligigs are going and chicken spanish and hot dog are sold,
There you come, giggling baby vamp, there you come with your blue baby eyes, saying:

Take me along.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1011110111111 10110101101101 1011111001111111111111011 00101010100101010101 010101111101011010010 010011100101001111 11110010111111110110 1101
Characters 548
Words 107
Sentences 6
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 7, 1
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 53
Words per line (avg) 13
Letters per stanza (avg) 213
Words per stanza (avg) 53
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 25, 2023

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Carl Sandburg

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