Analysis of Young Sycamore
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
I must tell you
this young tree
whose round and firm trunk
between the wet
pavement and the gutter
(where water
is trickling) rises
bodily
into the air with
one undulant
thrust half its height-
and then
dividing and waning
sending out
young branches on
all sides-
hung with cocoons
it thins
till nothing is left of it
but two
eccentric knotted
twigs
bending forward
hornlike at the top
| Scheme | ABXC DDXB XCXX XXXX XXXA XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 111 11011 0101 100010 110 11010 100 01011 11 1111 01 010010 101 1101 11 1101 11 1101111 11 01010 1 1010 1101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 371 |
| Words | 71 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 24 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 52 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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