Analysis of Cool Tombs
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
When Abraham Lincoln was shoveled into the tombs he forgot
the copperheads and the assassin . . . in the dust, in the
cool tombs.
And Ulysses Grant lost all thought of con men and Wall Street,
cash and collateral turned ashes . . . in the dust, in the
cool tombs.
Pocahontas' body, lovely as a poplar, sweet as a red haw in
November or a pawpaw in May, did she wonder? does she
remember? . . . in the dust, in the cool tombs?
Take any streetful of people buying clothes and groceries,
cheering a hero or throwing confetti and blowing tin
horns . . . tell me if the lovers are losers . . . tell me if any
get more than the lovers . . . in the dust . . . in the cool
tombs.
Scheme | xaB xaB cdb xcdxb |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101100101101 0100001000100 11 00101111111011 10010011000100 11 01010101010110110 01010101111011 0100010011 11011101010100 100101100100101 111101011011110 111010001001 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 666 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 28 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 5 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 27, 2023
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