Analysis of The Red Wheelbarrow
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 1101 01 011 10 111 10 0101 10 |
| Characters | 93 |
| Words | 18 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 9 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 18 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 4 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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