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,…
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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