Analysis of Laughing Corn
Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)
There was a high majestic fooling
Day before yesterday in the yellow corn.
And day after to-morrow in the yellow corn
There will be high majestic fooling.
The ears ripen in late summer
And come on with a conquering laughter,
Come on with a high and conquering laughter.
The long-tailed blackbirds are hoarse.
One of the smaller blackbirds chitters on a stalk
And a spot of red is on its shoulder
And I never heard its name in my life.
Some of the ears are bursting.
A white juice works inside.
Cornsilk creeps in the end and dangles in the wind.
Always--I never knew it any other way--
The wind and the corn talk things over together.
And the rain and the corn and the sun and the corn
Talk things over together.
Over the road is the farmhouse.
The siding is white and a green blind is slung loose.
It will not be fixed till the corn is husked.
The farmer and his wife talk things over together.
Scheme | AB BA CCC XXCX ADXXCBC XXDC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101010 1011000101 011011000101 111101010 01100110 0111010010 11101010010 0111011 11010101101 0011111110 0110111011 1101110 011101 11001010001 11101110101 010011110010 001001001001 1110010 1001101 010110011111 1111110111 0100111110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 903 |
Words | 171 |
Sentences | 15 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 3, 4, 7, 4 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 17, 2023
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