Analysis of The Gentle Man
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
I feel the caress of my own fingers
on my own neck as I place my collar
and think pityingly
of the kind women I have known.
| Scheme | ABCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1100111110 1111111110 011 10110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 131 |
| Words | 29 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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