Analysis of Sea Slant
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
On up the sea slant,
On up the horizon,
The ship limps.
The bone of her nose fog-gray,
The heart of her sea-strong,
She came a long way,
She goes a long way.
On up the sea slant,
On up the horizon,
She limps sea-strong, fog-gray
She is a green-lit night gray.
She comes and goes in sea-fog.
Up the horizon slant she limps.
Scheme | ABc dxdd ABd dxc |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011 110010 011 0110111 011011 11011 11011 11011 110010 111111 1101111 1101011 10010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 327 |
Words | 66 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 60 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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