Analysis of Thursday
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
I have had my dream--like others--
and it has come to nothing, so that
I remain now carelessly
with feet planted on the ground
and look up at the sky--
feeling my clothes about me,
the weight of my body in my shoes,
the rim of my hat, air passing in and out
at my nose--and decide to dream no more.
| Scheme | ABCDECFGH |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Nonet (56%) |
| Metre | 11111110 011111011 1011100 1110101 011101 1011011 011110011 01111110001 111011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 306 |
| Words | 63 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 9 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 225 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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