Analysis of The Late Singer
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
Here it is spring again
and I still a young man!
I am late at my singing.
The sparrow with the black rain on his breast
has been at his cadenzas for two weeks past:
What is it that is dragging at my heart?
The grass by the back door
is stiff with sap.
The old maples are opening
their branches of brown and yellow moth-flowers.
A moon hangs in the blue
in the early afternoons over the marshes.
I am late at my singing.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111101 011011 1111110 0101011111 111111111 1111110111 011011 1111 01101100 11011010110 011001 00100110010 1111110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 427 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
Lines Amount | 13 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 326 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 85 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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