Analysis of First Praise
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
Lady of dusk-wood fastnesses,
Thou art my Lady.
I have known the crisp, splintering leaf-tread with thee on before,
White, slender through green saplings;
I have lain by thee on the brown forest floor
Beside thee, my Lady.
Lady of rivers strewn with stones,
Only thou art my Lady.
Where thousand the freshets are crowded like peasants to a fair;
Clear-skinned, wild from seclusion
They jostle white-armed down the tent-bordered thoroughfare
Praising my Lady.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111 11110 111011001111101 1101110 11111101101 011110 10110111 1011110 11001110110101 1111010 110111011010 10110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 465 |
Words | 76 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 184 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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