This is an analysis of The Right To Grief by Carl Sandburg.
To Certain Poets About to Die
Take your fill of intimate remorse, perfumed sorrow,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a XbcdXe Xfd gbhia jkge kh kdb ffX hacjaXi
- Stanza lengths: 1,6,3,5,4,2,3,3,7,
- Metre: 010100101 1110100010110 1001100101 101001010101101 10101110010100 11 111 101 11111111 111010110110 11110011001110 010101101 11010100101111 1010101111001 111 1011110 0001101110110 10010011010101010 1101011 010101101 11001111110011 101001101111101 111001101001001 0110111 1010100011101010 111101110111 011101101110 110101111010 11111111 010101100101011 0011011011010 100101 1111110111011 0101001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 34
Repeated words/phrases
of, i, he, day
Anaphora
they, to
