Analysis of The Cold Night

William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)



It is cold. The white moon
is up among her scattered stars--
like the bare thighs of
the Police Sergeant's wife--among
her five children . . .
No answer. Pale shadows lie upon
the frosted grass. One answer:
It is midnight, it is still
and it is cold . . . !
White thights of the sky! a
new answer out of the depths of
my male belly: In April . . .
In April I shall see again--In April!
the round and perfects thighs
of the Police Sergeant's wife
perfect still after many babies.
Oya!


Scheme ABCDEFGHIJCKKLMNO
Poetic Form
Metre 111011 11010101 10111 0011101 0110 11011101 0101110 111111 0111 111010 11011011 1110010 01011101010 01011 100111 011101010 1
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 491
Words 88
Sentences 18
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 17
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 360
Words per stanza (avg) 96
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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William Carlos Williams

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