This is an analysis of Work Gangs by Carl Sandburg.
Box cars run by a mile long.
And I wonder what they say to each other…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXabcbXX ba baXdXbeXbbcbXdeXe
- Stanza lengths: 8,2,17,
- Metre: 1111011 11101110110 1110111011 101101 1101100101100101 110101001010111011 1100110001010 11010001101110110001001001111010100101011 1011001110110 1011110110110111 1010110010 10100101 10111110 11111011 1010011101 0010011 101001001110 0011011100 00110101101010 011011101 10111111110 1011111110101 0100110 0111101101111111111101 100010011001111110101011101010001110010111110001001001011101011001111101 101010011010011101111110111101011111110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 26
Repeated words/phrases
from, i, with, of, load, came, year, and, how, in, night, long, for, way
Anaphora
i, then, how, in, and
