Analysis of Back Yard
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
Shine on, O moon of summer.
Shine to the leaves of grass, catalpa and oak,
All silver under your rain to-night.
An Italian boy is sending songs to you to-night from an accordion.
A Polish boy is out with his best girl; they marry next month; to-night they are throwing you kisses.
An old man next door is dreaming over a sheen that sits in a cherry tree in his back yard.
The clocks say I must go—I stay here sitting on the back porch drinking white thoughts you rain down.
Shine on, O moon,
Shake out more and more silver changes.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110 110111101 110101111 1010111011111110100 010111111111011111110110 11111110100111001010111 0111111111010111011111 1111 111011010 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 540 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 2, 1, 1, 2 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 46 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 20, 2023
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