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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William Carlos Williams

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