Analysis of Last Answers
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
I wrote a poem on the mist
And a woman asked me what I meant by it.
I had thought till then only of the beauty of the mist,
how pearl and gray of it mix and reel,
And change the drab shanties with lighted lamps at evening
into points of mystery quivering with color.
I answered:
The whole world was mist once long ago and some day
it will all go back to mist,
Our skulls and lungs are more water than bone and tissue
And all poets love dust and mist because all the last answers
Go running back to dust and mist.
Scheme | AXAXXX XXAXXA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 00101111111 11111101010101 110111101 0101101101110 0111100100110 110 011111101011 1111111 1010111101101 011011010110110 11011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 509 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 201 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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