Speaker or Narrator, and Point of View
The speaker is a third person narrator, who is likely a stand-in for Williams himself. The voice is extremely objective and unaffected.
Form and Meter
The poem consists of four couplets that contain no punctuation.
Metaphors and Similes
N/A
Alliteration and Assonance
N/A
Irony
N/A
Genre
Nature poetry
Setting
Rural, likely a farm
Tone
Flat and objective
Protagonist and Antagonist
There is no human presence in the poem, but the red wheelbarrow could be considered the protagonist
Major Conflict
N/A
Climax
N/A
Foreshadowing
The lines "so much depends / upon" foreshadows the wheelbarrow's centrality to the poem as a whole.
Understatement
N/A
Allusions
N/A
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
N/A
Hyperbole
N/A
Onomatopoeia
N/A
