Analysis of To a Friend
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
Well, Lizzie Anderson! seventeen men--and
the baby hard to find a father for!
What will the good Father in Heaven say
to the local judge if he do not solve this problem?
A little two-pointed smile and--pouff!--
the law is changed into a mouthful of phrases.
| Scheme | XX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11010010110 0101110101 1101100101 1010111111110 010110101 01110101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 265 |
| Words | 49 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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