Analysis of January
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
Again I reply to the triple winds
running chromatic fifths of derision
outside my window:
Play louder.
You will not succeed. I am
bound more to my sentences
the more you batter at me
to follow you.
And the wind,
as before, fingers perfectly
its derisive music.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHIGJ |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0110110101 10111010 11110 110 1110111 1111100 0111011 1101 001 10110100 101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 268 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 207 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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