A.E.F.
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
There will be a rusty gun on the wall, sweetheart,
The rifle grooves curling with flakes of rust.
A spider will make a silver string nest in the
darkest, warmest corner of it.
The trigger and the range-finder, they too will be rusty.
And no hands will polish the gun, and it will hang on the wall.
Forefingers and thumbs will point casually toward it.
It will be spoken among half-forgotten, whished-to-be-forgotten things.
They will tell the spider: Go on, you're doing good work.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABCDEFDGH |
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Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 489 |
Words | 86 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
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