Analysis of The Poor
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
By constantly tormenting them
with reminders of the lice in
their children's hair, the
School Physician first
brought their hatred down on him.
But by this familiarity
they grew used to him, and so,
at last,
took him for their friend and adviser.
Scheme | ABCDEFGHI |
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Poetic Form | Nonet (44%) |
Metre | 1100101 10101010 11010 10101 1110111 1110100 1111101 11 111110010 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 254 |
Words | 45 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 197 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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