Analysis of White Shoulders
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
Your white shoulders
I remember
And your shrug of laughter.
Low laughter
Shaken slow
From your white shoulders.
| Scheme | ABB BXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110 1010 011110 110 101 11110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 119 |
| Words | 20 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 46 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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