This is an analysis of Soiled Dove by Carl Sandburg.
Let us be honest; the lady was not a harlot until she
married a corporation lawyer who picked her from…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXXabbXaXcXcccXX
- Stanza lengths: 16,
- Metre: 1101001011010011 1001010101100 01010 011110110001011 101101011110 110 111111111010 11100110111 101101111010 10 111011001011101 10011010100 100001110010010 010010101110 01111010010 110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
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