Analysis of Sea-Wash
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
The sea-wash never ends.
The sea-wash repeats, repeats.
Only old songs? Is that all the sea knows?
Only the old strong songs?
Is that all?
The sea-wash repeats, repeats.
| Scheme | aBcdeB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 011101 0110101 1011111011 100111 111 0110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 177 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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