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 |
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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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