Analysis of The Term

William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)



A rumpled sheet
Of brown paper
About the length

And apparent bulk
Of a man was
Rolling with the

Wind slowly over
And over in
The street as

A car drove down
Upon it and
Crushed it to

The ground. Unlike
A man it rose
Again rolling

With the wind over
And over to be as
It was before.


Scheme XAX XXX AXB XXX XXX ABX
Poetic Form
Metre 0101 1110 0101 00101 1011 1010 11010 0100 011 0111 0110 111 0101 0111 0110 10110 010111 1101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 296
Words 63
Sentences 4
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 12
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 37
Words per stanza (avg) 10
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 30, 2023

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William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams was a Latino-American poet closely associated with modernism and imagism. more…

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