Analysis of Youth and Beauty
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
I bought a dishmop--
having no daughter--
for they had twisted
fine ribbons of shining copper
about white twine
and made a tousled head
of it, fastened it
upon a turned ash stick
slender at the neck
straight, tall--
when tied upright
on the brass wallbracket
to be a light for me
and naked
as a girl should seem
to her father.
Scheme | ABCBDEFGHIJCKCLB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 10110 11110 11011010 0111 01011 11101 010111 10101 11 1101 1011 110111 010 10111 1010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 334 |
Words | 64 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 256 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 21, 2023
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