Analysis of Gray Room
Wallace Stevens 1879 (Reading) – 1955 (Hartford)
Although you sit in a room that is gray,
Except for the silver
Of the straw-paper,
And pick
At your pale white gown;
Or lift one of the green beads
Of your necklace,
To let it fall;
Or gaze at your green fan
Printed with the red branches of a red willow;
Or, with one finger,
Move the leaf in the bowl--
The leaf that has fallen from the branches of the forsythia
Beside you...
What is all this?
I know how furiously your heart is beating.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111001111 011010 10110 01 11111 1111011 1110 1111 111111 10101101011 11110 101001 0111101010100100 011 1111 111100011110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 447 |
Words | 89 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 337 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 87 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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