Analysis of Chicago Poet
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
I saluted a nobody.
I saw him in a looking-glass.
He smiled--so did I.
He crumpled the skin on his forehead, frowning--so did I.
Everything I did he did.
I said, "Hello, I know you."
And I was a liar to say so.
Ah, this. looking-glass man!
Liar, fool, dreamer, play-actor,
Soldier, dusty drinker of dust--
Ah! he will go with me
Down the dark stairway
When nobody else is looking,
When everybody else is gone.
He locks his elbow in mine,
I lose all--but not him.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101001 11100101 11111 11001111010111 101111 1101111 011010111 111011 10110110 10101011 111111 1011 111110 1100111 111101 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 470 |
Words | 90 |
Sentences | 13 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 2 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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