This is an analysis of Offering And Rebuff by Carl Sandburg.
I could love you
as dry roots love rain.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaXcb XdX E cXdXE
- Stanza lengths: 6,3,1,5,
- Metre: 1111 11111 1111 110001 1010 01111011 1111 1111 1010 10011 110101 11011 11011 10011
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 14
