Analysis of Graves

Carl Sandburg 1878 (Galesburg) – 1967 (Flat Rock)



I dreamed one man stood against a thousand,
One man damned as a wrongheaded fool.
One year and another he walked the streets,
And a thousand shrugs and hoots
Met him in the shoulders and mouths he passed.

He died alone.
And only the undertaker came to his funeral.

Flowers grow over his grave anod in the wind,
And over the graves of the thousand, too,
The flowers grow anod in the wind.

Flowers and the wind,
Flowers anod over the graves of the dead,
Petals of red, leaves of yellow, streaks of white,
Masses of purple sagging…
I love you and your great way of forgetting.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1111101010 11110101 1100101101 0010101 1100100111 1101 0100100111100 10110111001 0100110101 01011001 10001 1011001101 10111110111 1011010 11101111010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 581
Words 109
Sentences 7
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 2, 3, 5
Lines Amount 15
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 113
Words per stanza (avg) 27
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Carl Sandburg

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