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The Approaching Hour

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

You Communists and Republicans!
all you Germans and Frenchmen!
you corpses and quickeners!
The stars are about to melt
and fall on you in tears.

Get ready! Get ready!
you Papists and Protestants!
you whores and you virtuous!
The moon will be bread
and drop presently into your baskets.

Friends and those who despise
and detest us!
Adventists and those who believe
nothing!
Get ready for the awakening.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXAXX XXBXX XBXCC
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 395
Words 70
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5
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