Analysis of Memory of April
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
You say love is this, love is that:
Poplar tassels, willow tendrils
the wind and the rain comb,
tinkle and drip, tinkle and drip--
branches drifting apart. Hagh!
Love has not even visited this country.
| Scheme | ABCDEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111111 10111 010011 10011001 1010011 11110100110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 209 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 157 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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