Analysis of The Wedding Dance In The Open Air
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
Disciplined by the artist
to go round
and round
in holiday gear
a riotously gay rabble of
peasants and their
ample-bottomed doxies
fills
the market square
featured by the women in
their starched
white headgear
they prance or go openly
toward the wood's
edges
round and around in
rough shoes and
farm breeches
mouths agape
Oya !
kicking up their heels
| Scheme | XAA BXC DDC EXB XDD EXD XXD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1001010 111 01 0101 011101 1001 10101 1 0101 1010100 11 11 1111100 0101 10 10010 110 11 101 1 10111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 338 |
| Words | 62 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 41 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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