This is an analysis of Illinois Farmer by Carl Sandburg.
BURY this old Illinois farmer with respect.
He slept the Illinois nights of his life after days of work in Illinois cornfields.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX
- Stanza lengths: 5,
- Metre: 100110110001 110101100110101010111 1111011 011100001010100111011101010111101010010101011 011011100111011101011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: cinquain
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 5
Repeated words/phrases
in, illinois, he
Anaphora
the
