Analysis of Approach of Winter
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
The half-stripped trees
struck by a wind together,
bending all,
the leaves flutter drily
and refuse to let go
or driven like hail
stream bitterly out to one side
and fall
where the salvias, hard carmine--
like no leaf that ever was--
edge the bare garden.
| Scheme | ABCCDEFCGHG |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0111 1101010 101 01101 001111 11011 11001111 01 101110 1111101 10110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 263 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 201 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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