Analysis of Great Mullen

William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)



One leaves his leaves at home
beomg a mullen and sends up a lighthouse
to peer from: I will have my way,
yellow--A mast with a lantern, ten
fifty, a hundred, smaller and smaller
as they grow more--Liar, liar, liar!
You come from her! I can smell djer-kiss
on your clothes. Ha! you come to me,
you, I am a point of dew on a grass-stem.
Why are you sending heat down on me
from your lantern?--You are cowdung, a
dead stick with the bark off. She is
squirting on us both. She has has her
hand on you!--well?--She has defiled
ME.--Your leaves are dull, thick
and hairy.--Every hair on my body will
hold you off from me. You are a
dungcake, birdlime on a fencerail.--
I love you, straight, yellow
finger of God pointing to--her!
Liar, broken weed, dungcake, you have--
I am a cricket waving his antennae
and you are high, grey and straight. Ha!


Scheme ABCDEEFGHGIJEKLMIMNEOGP
Poetic Form
Metre 111111 101001101 11111111 100110101 1001010010 1111101010 111011111 11111111 11101111011 111101111 11101110 11101111 101111110 1111111 111111 010100111101 11111110 11101 111110 10111010 10101111 11010101010 01111011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 847
Words 165
Sentences 18
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 23
Lines Amount 23
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 626
Words per stanza (avg) 157
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams was a Latino-American poet closely associated with modernism and imagism. more…

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