Analysis of Muier

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



Oh, black Persian cat!
Was not your life
already cursed with offspring?
We took you for rest to that old
Yankee farm, — so lonely
and with so many field mice
in the long grass —
and you return to us
in this condition —!

Oh, black Persian cat.


Scheme Axxxxxxxx A
Poetic Form Etheree  (40%)
Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 11101 1111 010111 11111111 101110 0111011 0011 010111 01010 11101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 256
Words 51
Sentences 5
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 9, 1
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 92
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 30, 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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