Flowers By The Sea

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



When over the flowery, sharp pasture's
edge, unseen, the salt ocean

lifts its form-chicory and daisies
tied, released, seem hardly flowers alone

but color and the movement-or the shape
perhaps-of restlessness, whereas

the sea is circled and sways
peacefully upon its plantlike stem

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 15, 2023

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Scheme AX AX XA AX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 282
Words 45
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2

William Carlos Williams

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