Analysis of The Thing
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
Each time it rings
I think it is for
me but it is
not for me nor for
anyone it merely
rings and we
serve it bitterly
together, they and I
| Scheme | XAXA BBBX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 1111 11111 1111 11111 10110 101 11100 010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 138 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 13 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 53 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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