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 |
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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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