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Evening Waterfall

Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)

What is the name you called me?--
And why did you go so soon?

The crows lift their caws on the wind,
And the wind changed and was lonely.

The warblers cry thier sleepy-songs
Across the valley gloaming,
Across the cattle-horns of early stars.

Feathers and people in the crotch of a treetop
Throw an evening waterfall of sleepy-songs.

What is the name you called me?--
And why did you go so soon?

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 27, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AB xa cxx xc AB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 398
Words 77
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 3, 2, 2
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