This is an analysis of Mist Forms by Carl Sandburg.

THE SHEETS of night mist travel a long valley.
I know why you came at sundown in a scarf mist.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XX aX XaX
  • Stanza lengths: 2,2,3,
  • Metre: 01011100110 111111110011 1101110101101 1101111111111 0010010111 0010111011 01001111110
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 9

Anaphora

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