Analysis of To A Solitary Disciple, After William Carlos Williams
Rather notice the hidden
Purples and blues in the green
Grass.
Rather notice the salmon behind
The grey-brown bark of the
River Birch.
Notice the underside of the
Leaf is damp with knowledge
Unseen, but understood.
See how it deceives!
See how it asks us to notice
What is not obvious, but
Is discrete in awareness!
Do your best to depict not
What is gazed at, but what has
Been known for millennia in
The minds and hearts of men.
It is our duty to expose nature,
Not as it is witnessed by the eye,
But as it exists internal.
Observe not the concrete world,
But the sediment on which it was
Built. See how truth has not changed
No matter your environment.
Scheme | XXA XBX BXX ACXC XXXX XXX XXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010010 1001001 1 101001001 011110 101 1001010 111110 01101 1111 11111110 1111001 1010010 1111011 1111111 11101000 010111 11101010110 111110101 11101010 0110011 101001111 1111111 11010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 632 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 74 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on July 25, 2017
Modified on March 05, 2023
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