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My People by Carl Sandburg: poem analysis

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This is an analysis of My People by Carl Sandburg.

MY people are gray,
pigeon gray, dawn gray, storm gray.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 11011 1011111 110100 111011110
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4

Repeated words/phrases

gray

Epiphora

gray

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