This is an analysis of Cups Of Coffee by Carl Sandburg.

THE HAGGARD woman with a hacking cough and a deathless love whispers of white
flowers ... in your poem you pour like a cup of coffee, Gabriel.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aX bcX XXde dcXXabe
  • Stanza lengths: 2,3,4,7,
  • Metre: 0101000101101011001 10011011101010100 01111110010111011 01011010111011001101 1110101001 0101110101001011111 101011000100011010100 01010011010101111110 10 01011111110011011010 11111101111100101 101010101 10001101101011001 110001010010011111 111110110111111010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 19

Repeated words/phrases

of, woman, and

Anaphora

the