This is an analysis of Last Answers by Carl Sandburg.

I wrote a poem on the mist
And a woman asked me what I meant by it.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaXXX XXaXXa
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,
  • Metre: 11010101 10101111110 11111100010001 111100111 1101100101110 0010100100010 110 011111101111 0011101 1111111011111 111011110110110 11010111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

i, and, of, mist, all