This is an analysis of Clocks by Carl Sandburg.
HERE is a face that says half-past seven the same way whether a murder or a wedding goes on, whether a funeral or a picnic crowd passes.
A tall one I know at the end of a hallway broods in shadows and is watching booze eat out the insides of the man of the house; it has seen five hopes go in five years: one woman, one child, and three dreams.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaXX
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 1001111110011100101010111001001011110 0111110100111011101011100100100101111101011011111 01011000101111010000110100100010101111 110110011100110010010101101011011 1011111010010011100101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
Repeated words/phrases
one, in, of, and, it
Anaphora
a
