This is an analysis of The Shovel Man by Carl Sandburg.
On the street
Slung on his shoulder is a handle half way across,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbXcabXcXXX
- Stanza lengths: 12,
- Metre: 101 1101000101101 100111010110 101011001110010 1001110101011 1010110101 11110101 0101010101101 1011100011010 111001101001 011101101101 111010100
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
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