Spring and All
William Carlos Williams 1883 (Rutherford) – 1963 (Rutherford)
By the road to the contagious hospital
under the surge of the blue
mottled clouds driven from the
northeast -- a cold wind. Beyond, the
waste of broad, muddy fields
brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen
patches of standing water
the scattering of tall trees
All along the road the reddish
purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy
stuff of bushes and small trees
with dead, brown leaves under them
leafless vines --
Lifeless in appearance, sluggish
dazed spring approaches --
They enter the new world naked,
cold, uncertain of all
save that they enter. All about them
the cold, familiar wind --
Now the grass, tomorrow
the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf
One by one objects are defined --
It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf
But now the stark dignity of
entrance -- Still, the profound change
has come upon them: rooted they
grip down and begin to awaken
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXAAXB XC DXCEX DX XXEF XG FG XXXB |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 837 |
Words | 150 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 2, 5, 2, 4, 2, 2, 4 |
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