Analysis of The Disputants
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
Upon the table in their bowl
in violent disarray
of yellow sprays, green spikes
of leaves, red pointed petals
and curled heads of blue
and white among the litter
of the forks and crumbs and plates
the flowers remain composed.
Coolly their colloquy continues
above the coffee and loud talk
grown frail as vaudeville.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHIJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010011 010001 110111 1111010 01111 0101010 1010101 0100101 101100010 01010011 11110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 323 |
Words | 56 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 258 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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