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 |
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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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