Analysis of Cumulatives
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
Storms have beaten on this point of land
And ships gone to wreck here
and the passers-by remember it
with talk on the deck at night
as they near it.
Fists have beaten on the face of this old prize-fighter
And his battles have held the sporting pages
and on the street they indicate him with their
right fore-finger as one who once wore
a championship belt.
A hundred stories have been published and a thousand rumored
About why this tall dark man has divorced two beautiful
young women
And married a third who resembles the first two
and they shake their heads and say, "There he
goes,"
when he passes by in sunny weather or in rain
along the city streets.
Scheme | XXAXA XXXXX XXXXXXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011111 011111 001010101 1110111 1111 1110101111110 01101101010 0101110111 111011111 01001 010101110001010 01111111011100 110 010011010011 011110111 1 1110101010101 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 664 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 8 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 175 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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