Analysis of The Lonely Street
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
School is over. It is too hot
to walk at ease. At ease
in light frocks they walk the streets
to while the time away.
They have grown tall. They hold
pink flames in their right hands.
In white from head to foot,
with sidelong, idle look--
in yellow, floating stuff,
black sash and stockings--
touching their avid mouths
with pink sugar on a stick--
like a carnation each holds in her hand--
they mount the lonely street.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101111 111111 0111101 110101 111111 110111 011111 11101 010101 11010 101101 1110101 1001011001 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 427 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 324 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 78 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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