Analysis of Landscape With The Fall Of Icarus
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
According to Brueghel
when Icarus fell
it was spring
a farmer was ploughing
his field
the whole pageantry
of the year was
awake tingling
near
the edge of the sea
concerned
with itself
sweating in the sun
that melted
the wings' wax
unsignificantly
off the coast
there was
a splash quite unnoticed
this was
Icarus drowning
| Scheme | AAB BXC DBX CXX XXX AXD XDB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01011 1101 111 01011 11 01100 1011 01100 1 01101 01 101 10001 110 011 1 101 11 011010 11 1010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 308 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 7 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 21 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 38 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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