Analysis of Slow Movement
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
All those treasures that lie in the little bolted box whose tiny space is
Mightier than the room of the stars, being secret and filled with dreams:
All those treasures—I hold them in my hand—are straining continually
Against the sides and the lid and the two ends of the little box in which I guard them;
Crying that there is no sun come among them this great while and that they weary of shining;
Calling me to fold back the lid of the little box and to give them sleep finally.
But the night I am hiding from them, dear friend, is far more desperate than their night!
And so I take pity on them and pretend to have lost the key to the little house of my treasures;
For they would die of weariness were I to open it, and not be merely faint and sleepy
As they are now.
Scheme | XXAXXA XXAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011001010111011 10010110110100111 111011101111001000 010100100111010101111 1011111101111101110110 101111011010101111100 1011110111111110111 0111101100111101101011110 11111100011101011101010 1111 |
Characters | 781 |
Words | 153 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 61 |
Words per line (avg) | 15 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 303 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 76 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 30, 2023
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