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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William Carlos Williams

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