This is an analysis of Adelaide Crapsey by Carl Sandburg.
Among the bumble-bees in red-top hay, a freckled field of brown-eyed Susans dripping yellow leaves in July,
I read your heart in a book.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aX b X aXccXb
- Stanza lengths: 2,1,1,6,
- Metre: 010101011101010111010101001 1111001 111011011111110110 1111010001101010110111100001011011000101 1011011001 1001111001 11110 1001010 10110010111010111011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 9
Repeated words/phrases
i, of, and, in, her
Anaphora
and
Epiphora
longer
