Analysis of The Corn Harvest
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
Summer !
the painting is organized
about a young
reaper enjoying his
noonday rest
completely
relaxed
from his morning labors
sprawled
in fact sleeping
unbuttoned
on his back
the women
have brought him his lunch
perhaps
a spot of wine
they gather gossiping
under a tree
whose shade
carelessly
he does not share the
resting
center of
their workaday world.
| Scheme | XXX XXA XXX BXX XXX XBA XAX BXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10 010110 0101 100101 11 010 01 111010 1 0110 010 111 010 11111 01 0111 110100 1001 11 100 11110 10 101 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 338 |
| Words | 61 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 8 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 24 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 12 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 37 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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