Analysis of Limited
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
I am riding on a limited express, one of the crack trains
of the nation.
Hurtling across the prairie into blue haze and dark air
go fifteen all-steel coaches holding a thousand people.
(All the coaches shall be scrap and rust and all the men
and women laughing in the diners and sleepers shall
pass to ashes.)
I ask a man in the smoker where he is going and he
answers: "Omaha."
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110101000111011 1010 10010100111011 10111101001010 1010111010101 0101000100101 1110 110100101111001 1010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 386 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 296 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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