Analysis of On Gay Wallpaper
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
The green-blue ground
is ruled with silver lines
to say the sun is shining
And on this moral sea
of grass or dreams lie flowers
or baskets of desires
Heaven knows what they are
between cerulean shapes
laid regularly round
Mat roses and tridentate
leaves of gold
threes, threes and threes
Three roses and three stems
the basket floating
standing in the horns of blue
Repeating to the ceiling
to the windows
where the day
Blows in
the scalloped curtains to
the sound of rain
Scheme | AXB XCC XXA AXX XBD BXX XDX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111 111101 1101110 011101 1111110 1101010 101111 0111 110001 11001 111 1101 110011 01010 1000111 0101010 1010 101 10 010101 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 460 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 1 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 55 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 12 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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