This is an analysis of They Will Say by Carl Sandburg.
Of my city the worst that men will ever say is this:
You took little children away from the sun and the dew,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXXbbXa
- Stanza lengths: 7,
- Metre: 01100111010100 11101001001101 10101100110011 10101110011 011011011110 011011111010 101011011011001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 7
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
and, to
