Analysis of Daisy
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
The dayseye hugging the earth
in August, ha! Spring is
gone down in purple,
weeds stand high in the corn,
the rainbeaten furrow
is clotted with sorrel
and crabgrass, the
branch is black under
the heavy mass of the leaves--
The sun is upon a
slender green stem
ribbed lengthwise.
He lies on his back--
it is a woman also--
he regards his former
majesty and
round the yellow center,
split and creviced and done into
minute flowerheads, he sends out
his twenty rays-- a little
and the wind is among them
to grow cool there!
One turns the thing over
in his hand and looks
at it from the rear: brownedged,
green and pointed scales
armor his yellow.
But turn and turn,
the crisp petals remain
brief, translucent, greenfastened,
barely touching at the edges:
blades of limpid seashell.
Scheme | XXAXBACDXCEXXBDFDXXAEX DXFXB XXFXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011001 010111 11010 111001 0110 110110 010 11110 0101101 011010 1011 11 11111 1101010 101110 1000 101010 1010101 101111 1101010 0011011 1111 110110 01101 111011 10101 10110 1101 011001 10101 10101010 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 786 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 22, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 205 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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