This is an analysis of Cumulatives by Carl Sandburg.
Storms have beaten on this point of land
And ships gone to wreck here…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abccc XXbbc aXdXXXdX
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,8,
- Metre: 111010101 111011 101010100 0110111 1110 1110101001110 10101101010 11011101101 111011111 010011 010101010101010 01101111011100 110 110011010011 1111111101 10 1110101010101 010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
and, a
