This is an analysis of Sleepyheads by Carl Sandburg.
SLEEP is a maker of makers. Birds sleep. Feet cling to a perch. Look at the balance. Let the legs loosen, the backbone untwist, the head go heavy over, the whole works tumbles a done bird off the perch.
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X X aXa
- Stanza lengths: 1,1,3,
- Metre: 100100101111001110101011001110011101001110011101 1110101110011110001011000110011100010110110001010101001100010011 1110101001011111101011101111110101101001100111101001110111111001 1010100101001101011010010101001001101000110100111010010011011010001111111001001010110011011111110010010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 7
Repeated words/phrases
of, sleep, it
