Analysis of Après le Bain
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
I gotta
buy me a new
girdle.
(I'll buy
you one) O.K.
(I wish
you'd wig-
gle that way
for me,
I'd be
a happy man)
I GOTTA
wig-
gle for this.
(You pig)
| Scheme | Axxxbx cbd dxA cxc |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (73%) |
| Metre | 110 1101 10 11 1111 11 11 111 11 11 0101 110 1 111 11 |
| Characters | 143 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 7 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 25 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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