Analysis of Grass
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work.
I am the grass.
I cover all.
And pile them high at Gettysburg.
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years,
and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?
I am the grass.
Let me work.
| Scheme | xABx xxA xxxx Ba |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010111010 101100111 1101 1101 01111100 011111010 101100111 1111 010010010 1111 1111 1101 111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 332 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 66 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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