Analysis of The Nightingales
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
My shoes as I lean
unlacing them
stand out upon
flat worsted flowers
under my feet.
Nimbly the shadows
of my fingers play
unlacing
over shoes and flowers.
| Scheme | ABCDEFGHD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (44%) |
| Metre | 11111 11 1101 11010 1011 1001 11101 1 101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 162 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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