Analysis of Queen Anne's Lace
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
Her body is not so white as
anemone petals nor so smooth--nor
so remote a thing. It is a field
of the wild carrot taking
thefield by force; the grass
does not raise above it.
Here is no question of whiteness,
white as can be, with a purple mole
at the center of each flower.
Each flower is a hand's span
of her whiteness. Wherever
his hand has lain there is
a tiny purple blossom under his touch
to which the fibres of her being
stem one by one, each to its end,
until the whole field is a
white desire, empty, a single stem,
a cluster, flower by flower,
a pious wish to whiteness gone over--
or nothing.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJIKLDMNOIID |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Etheree (40%) |
Metre | 01011111 10101111 101011101 1011010 11101 111011 11110110 111110101 10101110 1101011 1010010 111111 01010101011 11011010 11111111 0101110 1010100101 01010110 0101110110 110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 612 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 20 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 466 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 08, 2023
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