Analysis of Jack
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
Jack was a swarthy, swaggering son-of-a-gun.
He worked thirty years on the railroad, ten hours a day, and his hands were tougher than sole leather.
He married a tough woman and they had eight children and the woman died and the children grew up and went away and wrote the old man every two years.
He died in the poorhouse sitting on a bench in the sun telling reminiscences to other old men whose women were dead and children scattered.
There was joy on his face when he died as there was joy on his face when he lived—he was a swarthy, swaggering son-of-a-gun.
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Metre | 110101001101 11101101110010110101110 11001100111100010100101101010101110011 1100110101001100100110111100101010 1111111111111111111110101001101 |
Characters | 572 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 5 |
Lines Amount | 5 |
Letters per line (avg) | 89 |
Words per line (avg) | 21 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 443 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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