This is an analysis of Ready To Kill by Carl Sandburg.

Ten minutes now I have been looking at this.
I have gone by here before and wondered about it.…

Browse poems by Carl Sandburg

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbcdXXebXafadgXcfXfgdXe
  • Stanza lengths: 25,
  • Metre: 11011101010 1111101110010 000101000010100 101100110110010 11 110101100010100 1010011 110101 100100100110100 10101010 110010010100 100101010101 100111001 11101101 0101 1001 1101101110010 01110100101000 1101011 11101010000101001 001 11011111 1001100011001 10010111101001 11001110010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 25

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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