Analysis of Poem (As the cat)
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
As the cat
climbed over
the top of
the jamcloset
first the right
forefoot
carefully
then the hind
stepped down
into the pit of
the empty
flowerpot
| Scheme | AXB AXX CXXBCX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101 110 011 01 101 1 100 101 11 01011 010 10 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 164 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 10 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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