Analysis of Chamfort
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
There's Chamfort. He’s a sample.
Locked himself in his library with a gun,
Shot off his nose and shot out his right eye.
And this Chamfort knew how to write
And thousands read his books on how to live,
But he himself didn’t know
How to die by force of his own hand—see?
They found him a red pool on the carpet
Cool as an April forenoon,
Talking and talking gay maxims and grim epigrams.
Well, he wore bandages over his nose and right eye,
Drank coffee and chatted many years
With men and women who loved him
Because he laughed and daily dared Death:
“Come and take me.”
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111010 1010110101 1111011111 0111111 0101111111 110111 1111111111 1110111010 111101 10010110011 1111001011011 110010101 11010111 011101011 1011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 585 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 443 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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