Analysis of Blueflags
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
I stopped the car
to let the children down
where the streets end
in the sun
at the marsh edge
and the reeds begin
and there are small houses
facing the reeds
and the blue mist in the distance
with grapevine trellises
with grape clusters
small as strawberries
on the vines
and ditches
running springwater
that continue the gutters
with willows over them.
The reeds begin
like water at a shore
their pointed petals waving
dark green and light.
But blueflags are blossoming
in the reeds
which the children pluck
chattering in the reeds
high over their heads
which they part
with bare arms to appear
with fists of flowers
till in the air
there comes the smell
of calmus
from wet, gummy stalks.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIGJKLGAJMFNOPOHQHRSTJUVGW |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 110101 1011 001 1011 00101 011110 1001 00110010 111 1110 1110 101 010 101 1010010 11101 0101 110101 1101010 1101 111100 001 10101 100001 11011 111 111101 11110 1001 1101 11 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 697 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 33 |
Lines Amount | 33 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 562 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 124 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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