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
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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Carl Sandburg

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