Analysis of The Desolate Field
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
Vast and grey, the sky
is a simulacrum
to all but him whose days
are vast and grey and --
In the tall, dried grasses
a goat stirs
with nozzle searching the ground.
My head is in the air
but who am I . . . ?
-- and my heart stops amazed
at the thought of love
vast and grey
yearning silently over me.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHAIJKB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 10101 101 111111 11010 001110 011 1101001 111001 1111 011101 10111 101 10100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 295 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 223 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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