Analysis of Love Song
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
I lie here thinking of you:---
the stain of love
is upon the world!
Yellow, yellow, yellow
it eats into the leaves,
smears with saffron
the horned branched the lean
heavily
against a smooth purple sky!
There is no light
only a honey-thick stain
that drips from leaf to leaf
and limb to limb
spoiling the colors
of the whole world-
you far off there under
the wine-red selvage of the west!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011 0111 10101 101010 110101 1110 01101 100 0101101 1111 1001011 111111 0111 10010 1011 111110 01110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 382 |
Words | 75 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14, 2 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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