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



Subtle, clever brain, wiser than I am,
by what devious means do you contrive
to remain idle? Teach me, O master.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 30, 2023

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Scheme ABC
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 120
Words 23
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 3

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams was a Latino-American poet closely associated with modernism and imagism. more…

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