Analysis of Picnic Boat
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
Sunday night and the park policemen tell each other it
is dark as a stack of black cats on Lake Michigan.
A big picnic boat comes home to Chicago from the peach
farms of Saugatuck.
Hundreds of electric bulbs break the night's darkness, a
flock of red and yellow birds with wings at a standstill.
Running along the deck railings are festoons and leaping
in curves are loops of light from prow and stern
to the tall smokestacks.
Over the hoarse crunch of waves at my pier comes a
hoarse answer in the rhythmic oompa of the brasses
playing a Polish folk-song for the home-comers.
Scheme | ABCDEFDGHEIJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1100101011101 1110111111100 011111101101 111 1010101101100 111010111101 1001011011010 0111111101 1011 100111111110 110001011010 100101110110 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 584 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 39 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 463 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 105 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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