Analysis of This is Just to Say
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
| Scheme | XXXX XAXX AXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1110 01 100 01 01 10100 10 110 011 10010 11 011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 146 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 10 |
| Words per line (avg) | 2 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 40 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 9 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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