Analysis of Clark Street Bridge

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



Dust of the feet
And dust of the wheels,
Wagons and people going,
All day feet and wheels.

Now. . .
. . Only stars and mist
A lonely policeman,
Two cabaret dancers,
Stars and mist again,
No more feet or wheels,
No more dust and wagons.

Voices of dollars
And drops of blood
. . . . .
Voices of broken hearts,
. . Voices singing, singing,
. . Silver voices, singing,
Softer than the stars,
Softer than the mist.


Scheme XABA XCXDXAX DX XBBXC
Poetic Form
Metre 1101 01101 1001010 11101 1 10101 010010 10110 10101 11111 111010 10110 0111 1 101101 101010 101010 10101 10101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 417
Words 70
Sentences 18
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 7, 8
Lines Amount 19
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 100
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 21, 2023

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Carl Sandburg

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