Analysis of Flanders
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
Flanders, the name of a place, a country of people,
Spells itself with letters, is written in books.
"Where is Flanders?" was asked one time,
Flanders known only to those who lived there
And milked cows and made cheese and spoke the home language.
"Where is Flanders?" was asked.
And the slang adepts shot the reply: Search me.
A few thousand people milking cows, raising radishes,
On a land of salt grass and dunes, sand-swept with a sea-breath on it:
This was Flanders, the unknown, the quiet,
The place where cows hunted lush cuds of green on lowlands,
And the raw-boned plowmen took horses with long shanks
Out in the dawn to the sea-breath.
Flanders sat slow-spoken amid slow-swung windmills,
Slow-circling windmill arms turning north or west,
Turning to talk to the swaggering winds, the childish winds,
So Flanders sat with the heart of a kitchen girl
Washing wooden bowls in the winter sun by a window.
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Metre | 1001101010110 10111011001 11101111 1011011111 011011010110 111011 0011100111 01101010110100 1011110111101111 1110001010 011110111111 00111110111 10011011 10111001111 11001110111 10111010010101 110110110101 10101001011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 918 |
Words | 161 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 3, 2, 6, 5 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 143 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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