Analysis of Anecdote of the Jar
Wallace Stevens 1879 (Reading) – 1955 (Hartford)
I placed a jar in Tennessee,
And round it was, upon a hill.
It made the slovenly wilderness
Surround that hill.
The wilderness rose up to it,
And sprawled around, no longer wild.
The jar was round upon the ground
And tall and of a port in air.
It took dominion everywhere.
The jar was gray and bare.
It did not give of bird or bush,
Like nothing else in Tennessee.
| Scheme | ABXB XXXC CCXA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (33%) |
| Metre | 1101001 01110101 110100100 0111 01001111 01011101 01110101 01010101 1101010 011101 11111111 1101001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 361 |
| Words | 73 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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