Analysis of Complete Destruction
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
It was an icy day.
We buried the cat,
then took her box
and set fire to it
in the back yard.
Those fleas that escaped
earth and fire
died by the cold.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111101 11001 1101 011011 0011 11101 1010 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 158 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 08, 2023
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