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.


Scheme ABBCDEFGHIBJKLMN
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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Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. more…

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