Analysis of And This Will Be All....

Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)



And this will be all?
And the gates will never open again?
And the dust and the wind will play around the rusty door hinges and the songs of October moan, Why-oh, why-oh?

And you will look to the mountains
And the mountains will look to you
And you will wish you were a mountain
And the mountain will wish nothing at all?
This will be all?
The gates will never-never open again?

The dust and the wind only
And the rusty door hinges and moaning October
And Why-oh, why-oh, in the moaning dry leaves,
This will be all?

Nothing in the air but songs
And no singers, no mouths to know the songs?
You tell us a woman with a heartache tells you it is so?
This will be all?


Scheme abc xxxaAb xxxA ddcA
Poetic Form
Metre 01111 0011101001 0010011101010110001101011111 01111010 00101111 011110010 0010111011 1111 01110101001 0100110 0010110010010 01111001011 1111 1000111 0110111101 11101010111111 1111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 657
Words 133
Sentences 11
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 3, 6, 4, 4
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 129
Words per stanza (avg) 33
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Carl Sandburg

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