Analysis of Young Woman At A Window

William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)



She sits with
tears on
her cheek
her cheek on
her hand
the child
in her lap
his nose
pressed
to the glass


Scheme ABCBDEFGHI
Poetic Form Tetractys  (80%)
Etheree  (30%)
Metre 111 11 01 011 01 01 001 11 1 101
Characters 104
Words 25
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 8
Words per line (avg) 2
Letters per stanza (avg) 83
Words per stanza (avg) 23
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 19, 2023

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William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams was a Latino-American poet closely associated with modernism and imagism. more…

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