Analysis of Ashurnatsirpal III
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
Three walls around the town of Tela when I came.
They expected everything of those walls;
Nobody in the town came out to kiss my feet.
I knocked the walls down, killed three thousand soldiers,
Took away cattle and sheep, took all the loot in sight,
And burned special captives.
Some of the soldiers—I cut off hands and feet.
Others—I cut off ears and fingers.
Some—I put out the eyes.
I made a pyramid of heads.
I strung heads on trees circling the town.
When I got through with it
There wasn’t much left of the town of Tela.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010111111 101010111 1001111111 11011111010 1011001110101 011010 11010111101 101111010 111101 11010011 1111110001 111111 111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 529 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 5, 2 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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