Analysis of Metric Figure
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
There is a bird in the poplars!
It is the sun!
The leaves are little yellow fish
swimming in the river.
The bird skims above them,
day is on his wings.
Phoebus!
It is he that is making
the great gleam among the poplars!
It is his singing
outshines the noise
of leaves clashing in the wind.
| Scheme | ABCDEAAFAFAG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101001 1101 01110101 100010 011011 11111 10 1111110 0110101 11110 101 1110001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 297 |
| Words | 59 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 12 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 225 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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