Analysis of I Sang
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
I sang to you and the moon
But only the moon remembers.
I sang
O reckless free-hearted
free-throated rythms,
Even the moon remembers them
And is kind to me.
| Scheme | ABCDBEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111001 11001010 11 110110 1101 10010101 01111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 164 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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