Analysis of Blacklisted
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
Why shall I keep the old name?
What is a name anywhere anyway?
A name is a cheap thing all fathers and mothers leave each child:
A job is a job and I want to live, so
Why does God Almighty or anybody else care whether I take a new name to go by?
| Scheme | ABCDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111011 11011010 011011110010111 01101011111 11101011000111011011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 253 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 187 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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