This is an analysis of Timesweep by Carl Sandburg.

I was born in the morning of the world,
So I know how morning looks…

Browse poems by Carl Sandburg

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabbXXabbb
  • Stanza lengths: 10,
  • Metre: 1110010001 1111101 10001010 10101010 1011101 1011101 101101 110110110010 110110110 101010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 10

Repeated words/phrases

morning, like, wanting

Anaphora

morning, like

Epiphora

wanting, morning