Analysis of Honky Tonk in Cleveland, Ohio
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
It's a jazz affair, drum crashes and coronet razzes.
The trombone pony neighs and the tuba jackass snorts.
The banjo tickles and titters too awful.
The chippies talk about the funnies in the papers.
The cartoonists weep in their beer.
Shop riveters talk with their feet
To the feet of floozies under the tables.
A quartet of white hopes mourn with interspersed snickers:
"I got the blues.
I got the blues.
I got the blues."
And . . . as we said earlier:
The cartoonists weep in their beer.
| Scheme | aabaCdaaAAAeC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010111001011 00111001011 011001110 01101010010 00101011 111111 1011110010 001111110110 1101 1101 1101 0111100 00101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 497 |
| Words | 89 |
| Sentences | 14 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 382 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 89 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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