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Haymaking

William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)

The living quality of
the man's mind
stands out

and its covert assertions
for art, art, art!
painting

that the Renaissance
tried to absorb
but

it remained a wheat field
over which the
wind played

men with scythes tumbling
the wheat in
rows

the gleaners already busy
it was his own---
magpies

the patient horses no one
could take that
from him

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXX XXA XXX XXX AXX XXX XXX
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 350
Words 64
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
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