Analysis of In a Back Alley
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
Remembrance for a great man is this.
The newsies are pitching pennies.
And on the copper disk is the man’s face.
Dead lover of boys, what do you ask for now?
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 010101111 01011010 0101011011 11011111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 167 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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