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Hic Jacet

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

The coroner's merry little children
Have such twinkling brown eyes.
Their father is not of gay men
And their mother jocular in no wise,
Yet the coroner's merry little children
Laugh so easily.

They laugh because they prosper.
Fruit for them is upon all branches.
Lo! how they jibe at loss, for
Kind heaven fills their little paunches!
It's the coroner's merry, merry children
Who laugh so easily.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABXBAC XXXBAC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 403
Words 70
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 6, 6
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