This is an analysis of Just Before April Came by Carl Sandburg.

THE SNOW piles in dark places are gone.
Pools by the railroad tracks shine clear.…

Browse poems by Carl Sandburg

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX XaXa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 011011011 11011111 0100110101 011011101 11011111010001011100100 1101111111101011110111100 010010010111111100100 11111110
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 9

Repeated words/phrases

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