Analysis of Apology
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
Why do I write today?
The beauty of
the terrible faces
of our nonentites
stirs me to it:
colored women
day workers—
old and experienced—
returning home at dusk
in cast off clothing
faces like
old Florentine oak.
the set pieces
of your faces stir me—
leading citizens—
but not
in the same way.
| Scheme | A XBBX XXXXXXX BXXXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101 0101 010010 1101 1111 1010 110 100100 010111 01110 101 1101 0110 111011 10100 11 0011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 296 |
| Words | 57 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 7, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 17 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 58 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 11, 2023
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