This is an analysis of People Who Must by Carl Sandburg.

I painted on the roof of a skyscraper.
I painted a long while and called it a day's work.…

Browse poems by Carl Sandburg

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXbXXba
  • Stanza lengths: 9,
  • Metre: 11010100110 110011110011 01010101101011010111101 100111101111 11010111011 10101010101001 10111011 11101110011 110011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 9

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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