Analysis of Fog Portrait
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
RINGS of iron gray smoke; a woman’s steel face … looking … looking.
Funnels of an ocean liner negotiating a fog night; pouring a taffy mass down the wind; layers of soot on the top deck; a taffrail … and a woman’s steel face … looking … looking.
Cliffs challenge humped; sudden arcs form on a gull’s wing in the storm’s vortex; miles of white horses plow through a stony beach; stars, clear sky, and everywhere free climbers calling; and a woman’s steel face … looking … looking …
Scheme | AAA |
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Poetic Form | Tercet Triplet |
Metre | 11101101111010 1011101001000111001011011011101101001111010 110110111011001101111011010111101011010001111010 |
Characters | 514 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 3 |
Lines Amount | 3 |
Letters per line (avg) | 122 |
Words per line (avg) | 30 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 367 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 89 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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