This is an analysis of White Hands by Carl Sandburg.

FOR the second time in a year this lady with the white hands is brought to the west room second floor of a famous sanatorium.
Her husband is a cornice manufacturer in an Iowa town and the lady has often read papers on Victorian poets before the local literary club.…

Browse poems by Carl Sandburg

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 10101001010001101001110100101000 010001010100011001101011011010100100101010101 101110110101100101010011100010010101011101 10101010010010110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4

Repeated words/phrases

her, hands, in