Analysis of Letters to Dead Imagists
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
You gave us the bumble bee who has a soul,
The everlasting traveler among the hollyhocks,
And how God plays around a back yard garden.
War is kind and we never knew the kindness of war till you came;
Nor the black riders and clashes of spear and shield out of the sea,
Nor the mumblings and shots that rise from dreams on call.
| Scheme | XXX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101011101 001010001010 01110101110 1110110101011111 1011001011011101 10101111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 363 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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