Haunts
There are places I go when I am strong.One is a marsh pool where I used to gowith a long-ear hound-dog.One is a wild crabapple tree; I was therea moonlight night with a girl.The dog is gone; the girl is gone; I go to these places when there is no other place to go.
About this text
Haunts is in the public domain. This text is taken from Cornhuskers, Wikisource; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Carl Sandburg, Haunts, in Cornhuskers (1918), text of Wikisource, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/sandburg-cornhuskers/haunts.html, id L29073.
Form and metre
Haunts is 6 lines in a single stanza. The metre is iambic pentameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 72%).
See other poems in iambic pentameter.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 -A---A strong · goA · dog · there · girl · goA
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against iambic pentameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| There are places I go when I am strong. | 10 | ··/˘······ |
| One is a marsh pool where I used to go | 10 | ·········· |
| with a long-ear hound-dog. | 6 | ······ |
| One is a wild crabapple tree; I was there | 11 | ··········· |
| a moonlight night with a girl. | 7 | ·/····· |
| The dog is gone; the girl is gone; I go to these places when there is no other place to go. | 23 | ············/˘····/˘··· |
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