Analysis of A Sort of a Song
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
Let the snake wait under
his weed
and the writing
be of words, slow and quick, sharp
to strike, quiet to wait,
sleepless.
-- through metaphor to reconcile
the people and the stones.
Compose. (No ideas
but in things) Invent!
Saxifrage is my flower that splits
the rocks.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJKL |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101110 11 0010 1111011 111011 10 1100110 010001 011010 10101 1111011 01 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 266 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 209 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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