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!


Scheme X XAXXXXXXXXXXXA XX
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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William Carlos Williams

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