Halsted Street Car
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
Come you, cartoonists,
Hang on a strap with me here
At seven o’clock in the morning
On a Halsted street car.
Take your pencils
And draw these faces.
Try with your pencils for these crooked faces,
That pig-sticker in one corner—his mouth—
That overall factory girl—her loose cheeks.
Find for your pencils
A way to mark your memory
Of tired empty faces.
After their night’s sleep,
In the moist dawn
And cool daybreak,
Faces
Tired of wishes,
Empty of dreams.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXXX AB BXX AXB XXXBXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 470 |
Words | 82 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 2, 3, 3, 6 |
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