Analysis of Bantams in Pine-woods
Wallace Stevens 1879 (Reading) – 1955 (Hartford)
Chieftain Iffucan of Azcan in caftan
Of tan with henna hackles, halt!
Damned universal cock, as if the sun
Was blackmoor to bear your blazing tail.
Fat! Fat! Fat! Fat! I am the personal.
Your world is you. I am my world.
You ten-foot poet among inchlings. Fat!
Begone! An inchling bristles in these pines,
Bristles, and points their Appalachian tangs,
And fears not portly Azcan nor his hoos.
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 1011101 11110101 101011101 11111101 1111110100 11111111 111100111 11110011 100110101 011101111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 391 |
| Words | 71 |
| Sentences | 14 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 10 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 61 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 14 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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