Analysis of Proletarian Poet
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
A big young bareheaded woman
in an apron
Her hair slicked back standing
on the street
One stockinged foot toeing
the sidewalk
Her shoe in her hand. Looking
intently into it
She pulls out the paper insole
to find the nail
That has been hurting her
Scheme | AA BX BX BX CC X |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011110 0110 011110 101 11110 01 0100110 010011 1110101 1101 111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 244 |
Words | 48 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 33 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 8 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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