Analysis of Berket and the Stars

William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)



A day on the boulevards chosen out of ten years of
student poverty! One best day out of ten good ones.
Berket in high spirits--"Ha, oranges! Let's have one!"
And he made to snatch an orange from the vender's cart.

Now so clever was the deception, so nicely timed
to the full sweep of certain wave summits,
that the rumor of the thing has come down through
three generations--which is relatively forever!


Scheme XXXX XXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 0110101011111 1010011111111 101101100111 011111101011 1110100101101 1011110110 10101011111 1010111000010
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 411
Words 75
Sentences 7
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 39
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 158
Words per stanza (avg) 36
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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William Carlos Williams

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