Analysis of The Red Wheelbarrow (my extended version)



so much depends                                      
upon

a red wheel                                          
barrow

glazed with rain                                  
water

beside the white
chickens.

so much depends upon the
push

the push of my dented
hands

to push the world of
worries

that I carry with me every
day.

so much depends upon
life

to rain down it’s
struggles

upon me while I
push with me

all of my worries,
my failure,
and my dormant success.

so much is thought of a
wheelbarrow,

forced to carry the pain,
and even worse, expected to be completely and utterly okay,
even when life pours upon it all of its calamity,
without an ounce of regard that maybe
this weight is too much for the wheelbarrow to haul.

so much depends upon the
chickens

sitting there,
watching me push along.

all they do is
sit there

all they do is
watch me

watch me as a struggle,
struggle with moving this burden of a weight.

but what are they to do,
when they’re much too weak to even grasp what I have to hold onto?

so much depends upon my
mind

to think its fragile
thoughts

to be able to put so much worry next to such a simple thing.

but a red wheelbarrow to you,
is not a red wheelbarrow to me.

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.


Scheme AB CD EF GH Ix xx xj kl bx xx mk jfx id elkkx IH nx On Ok px qq mx px x qk AB CD EF GH
Poetic Form
Metre 1101 01 011 10 111 10 0101 10 1101010 1 011110 1 11011 10 111011100 1 110101 1 1111 10 01111 111 11110 110 011001 111110 10 111001 01010101101001001 101110111110100 0111101110 11111101011 1101010 10 101 101101 1111 11 1111 11 111010 10110110101 111111 1111111011111110 1101011 1 11110 1 11101111101110101 1011011 11011011 1101 01 011 10 111 10 0101 10
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,328
Words 294
Sentences 10
Stanzas 28
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 5, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2
Lines Amount 59
Letters per line (avg) 16
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 33
Words per stanza (avg) 8

About this poem

The first four lines and four last lines are from the poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams. The format of this poem is also inspired by that poem. This is basically my interpretation of what the famous poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" means. Keep in mind that this is my opinion, and not at all necessarily what the actual poem means. I really hope you like it, I am a teen poet and I am very proud of this poem.

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Written on July 17, 2023

Submitted by lorlor on July 18, 2023

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