Analysis of The Dance
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
In Breughel's great picture, The Kermess,
the dancers go round, they go round and
around, the squeal and the blare and the
tweedle of bagpipes, a bugle and fiddles
tipping their bellies, (round as the thick-
sided glasses whose wash they impound)
their hips and their bellies off balance
to turn them. Kicking and rolling about
the Fair Grounds, swinging their butts, those
shanks must be sound to bear up under such
rollicking measures, prance as they dance
in Breughel's great picture, The Kermess
Scheme | AbcadeafagaA |
---|---|
Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111001 010111110 010100100 1011010010 101101101 101011101 110110110 1111001001 01110111 1111111101 100101111 0111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 496 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 400 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Font size:
Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
- 26 sec read
- 1,448 Views
Citation
Use the citation below to add this poem analysis to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"The Dance" Poetry.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 13 Jun 2024. <https://www.poetry.com/poem-analysis/39703/the-dance>.
Discuss this William Carlos Williams poem analysis with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In