Analysis of Danse Russe
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
If I when my wife is sleeping
and the baby and Kathleen
are sleeping
and the sun is a flame-white disc
in silken mists
above shining trees,—
if I in my north room
dance naked, grotesquely
before my mirror
waving my shirt round my head
and singing softly to myself:
"I am lonely, lonely.
I was born to be lonely,
I am best so!"
If I admire my arms, my face,
my shoulders, flanks, buttocks
against the yellow drawn shades,—
Who shall say I am not
the happy genius of my household?
| Scheme | AXAXXXXBXXXBBXXXX XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111110 0010001 110 00110111 0101 01101 110111 110010 01110 1011111 0101011 111010 1111110 1111 11011111 110110 0101011 111111 01010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 472 |
| Words | 97 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 17, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 19 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 185 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 30, 2023
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