Analysis of The Approaching Hour
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
You Communists and Republicans!
all you Germans and Frenchmen!
you corpses and quickeners!
The stars are about to melt
and fall on you in tears.
Get ready! Get ready!
you Papists and Protestants!
you whores and you virtuous!
The moon will be bread
and drop presently into your baskets.
Friends and those who despise
and detest us!
Adventists and those who believe
nothing!
Get ready for the awakening.
| Scheme | AXAXX XXBXX XBXCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 110000100 1110010 11001 0110111 011101 110110 110100 1101100 01111 0110001110 101101 0011 1001101 10 110100100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 395 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 13 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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