This is an analysis of Ossawatomie by Carl Sandburg.
I DON'T know how he came,
shambling, dark, and strong.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ab Xca X dacXdXdbaaXeXXea
- Stanza lengths: 2,3,1,16,
- Metre: 111111 10111 110010111 11011110111111011110110010110 1111110101110 11110110110101101110 111001 11111111 11111 101111 1111101 1001010001 111101101 10111 1110101110 11111 10110101 10111010111 11111111010 11010101111 1101111100111 1001101110
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 25
Repeated words/phrases
my, people, and, him, they, he
Anaphora
they, and
