Analysis of The Uses of Poetry
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
I've fond anticipation of a day
O'erfilled with pure diversion presently,
For I must read a lady poesy
The while we glide by many a leafy bay,
Hid deep in rushes, where at random play
The glossy black winged May-flies, or whence flee
Hush-throated nestlings in alarm,
Whom we have idly frighted with our boat's long sway.
For, lest o'ersaddened by such woes as spring
To rural peace from our meek onward trend,
What else more fit? We'll draw the latch-string
And close the door of sense; then satiate wend,
On poesy's transforming giant wing,
To worlds afar whose fruits all anguish mend.
Scheme | ABXA ABXA CDC DCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110010101 111010100 11110101 01111100101 1101011101 0101111111 11010001 111101110111 11111111 11011101101 111111011 010111111 11010101 1101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 593 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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