Analysis of A Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
Wallace Stevens 1879 (Reading) – 1955 (Hartford)
The houses are haunted
By white night-gowns.
None are green,
Or purple with green rings,
Or green with yellow rings,
Or yellow with blue rings.
None of them are strange,
With socks of lace
And beaded ceintures.
People are not going
To dream of baboons and periwinkles.
Only, here and there, an old sailor,
Drunk and asleep in his boots,
Catches Tigers
In red weather.
| Scheme | ABCDDDEFBGBHIJH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (40%) |
| Metre | 010110 1111 111 110111 111101 110111 11111 1111 0101 101110 1110101 101011110 1001011 1010 0110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 361 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 15 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 289 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 65 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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