Analysis of Peasant Wedding
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
Pour the wine bridegroom
where before you the
bride is enthroned her hair
loose at her temples a head
of ripe wheat is on
the wall beside her the
guests seated at long tables
the bagpipers are ready
there is a hound under
the table the bearded Mayor
is present women in their
starched headgear are
gabbing all but the bride
hands folded in her
lap is awkwardly silent simple
dishes are being served
clabber and what not
from a trestle made of an
unhinged barn door by two
helpers one in a red
coat a spoon in his hatband.
Scheme | XAB CXA XXD DBX XDX XXX XCC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011 10110 11101 1101001 11111 010100 1101110 01110 110110 01001010 1101001 111 101101 11000 111001010 101101 1011 1010111 011111 101001 101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 509 |
Words | 102 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 60 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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