This is an analysis of Three Ghosts by Carl Sandburg.

THREE tailors of Tooley Street wrote: We, the People.
The names are forgotten. It is a joke in ghosts.…

Browse poems by Carl Sandburg

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aX XXX bbXXA XXA
  • Stanza lengths: 2,3,5,3,
  • Metre: 110010111010 011010000101 1011001101011 11010111011 1010 1101011010110 1111001001010 11111100100 010111011110 010 10100010011010 000101101111 010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

of

Anaphora

the