Analysis of Hic Jacet
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
The coroner's merry little children
Have such twinkling brown eyes.
Their father is not of gay men
And their mother jocular in no wise,
Yet the coroner's merry little children
Laugh so easily.
They laugh because they prosper.
Fruit for them is upon all branches.
Lo! how they jibe at loss, for
Kind heaven fills their little paunches!
It's the coroner's merry, merry children
Who laugh so easily.
| Scheme | ABXBAC XXXBAC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0100101010 1110011 11011111 0110100011 10100101010 11100 1101110 111101110 1111111 11011101 10100101010 111100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 403 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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