Analysis of Dawn
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
Ecstatic bird songs pound
the hollow vastness of the sky
with metallic clinkings--
beating color up into it
at a far edge,--beating it, beating it
with rising, triumphant ardor,--
stirring it into warmth,
quickening in it a spreading change,--
bursting wildly against it as
dividing the horizon, a heavy sun
lifts himself--is lifted--
bit by bit above the edge
of things,--runs free at last
out into the open--!lumbering
glorified in full release upward--
songs cease.
Scheme | ABCDDEFGCHIJKLMC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010111 01010101 10101 10101011 1011101101 11001010 101011 100010101 10100111 01000100101 101110 1110101 111111 101010100 10010110 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 476 |
Words | 82 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 366 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 75 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 29, 2023
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