This is an analysis of Ice Handler by Carl Sandburg.

I know an ice handler who wears a flannel shirt with pearl buttons the size of a dollar,
And he lugs a hundred-pound hunk into a saloon ice-box, helps himself to cold ham and rye bread,…

Browse poems by Carl Sandburg

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaaXbb
  • Stanza lengths: 7,
  • Metre: 11111001101010110010010 111010110000111101011111 101100101101100101010110 10101001001101101 1101011100100110110110110100001100 1010101011011101001111001101111100101101110111011001 1111011100111101000111111110100010101010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 7

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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