Analysis of Election Day
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
Warm sun, quiet air
an old man sits
in the doorway of
a broken house--
boards for windows
plaster falling
from between the stones
and strokes the head
of a spotted dog
| Scheme | XX XX XX XX X |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11101 1111 0011 0101 1110 1010 10101 0101 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 167 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 1 |
| Lines Amount | 9 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 15 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 27 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 6 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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