Analysis of Fire Pages
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
I will read ashes for you, if you ask me.
I will look on the fire and tell you from the gray lashes
And out of the red and black tongues and stripes,
I will tell how fire comes
And how fire runs far as the sea.
| Scheme | ABCDA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Cinquain (20%) |
| Metre | 11110111111 111101001110110 0110101101 1111101 011011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 218 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 160 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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