Analysis of Epitaph
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
An old willow with hollow branches
slowly swayed his few high gright tendrils
and sang:
Love is a young green willow
shimmering at the bare wood's edge.
| Scheme | AAX XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) Lanturne (20%) |
| Metre | 11111010 10111111 01 110111 10010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 160 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 62 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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