Analysis of Haymaking
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
The living quality of
the man's mind
stands out
and its covert assertions
for art, art, art!
painting
that the Renaissance
tried to absorb
but
it remained a wheat field
over which the
wind played
men with scythes tumbling
the wheat in
rows
the gleaners already busy
it was his own---
magpies
the patient horses no one
could take that
from him
| Scheme | XXX XXA XXX XXX AXX XXX XXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101001 011 11 0110010 1111 10 1001 1101 1 101011 1010 11 111100 010 1 0101010 1111 1 0101011 111 11 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 350 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 39 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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