Analysis of Happiness
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell
me what is happiness.
And I went to famous executives who boss the work of
thousands of men.
They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though
I was trying to fool with them
And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along
the Desplaines river
And I saw a crowd of Hungarians under the trees with
their women and children and a keg of beer and an
accordion.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110010110101111 111100 011110010011011 1011 111110110111 11101111 011101110101 0110 011011010010011 1100100011101 0100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 435 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 341 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 84 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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