Analysis of Improved Farm Land
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
Tall timber stood here once, hee on a corn belt farm along the Monon.
Here the roots of a half-mile of trees dug their runners deep in the loam for a grip and a hold against wind storms.
Then the axemen came and the chips flew to the zing of steel and handle--the lank railsplitters cut the big ones first, the beeches and the oaks, then the brush.
Dynamite, wagons, and horses took the stumps--the plows sunk their teeth in--now it is first class corn land--omproved property--and the hogs grunt over the fodder crops.
It would come hard now for this half mile of improved farm land along the Monon corn belt, on a piece of Grand Prarie, to remember once it had a great singing family of trees.
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Metre | 1101111101110101 101101111111010011010010111 10110011101110100111011101001101 1010010101011110111111111000011100101 111111111101110101111011111010111011010011 |
Characters | 703 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 5 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 109 |
Words per line (avg) | 26 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 544 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 129 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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