Analysis of The Great Figure
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
Among the rain
and lights
I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
firetruck
moving
tense
unheeded
to gong clangs
siren howls
and wheels rumbling
through the dark city.
| Scheme | ABCDEFFGHBIFJ |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101 01 11010 01 101 1 10 1 010 111 101 01100 10110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 171 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 13 |
| Lines Amount | 13 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 10 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 08, 2023
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