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 |
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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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