Sort of a Song- poem reponse 20

Sort of a Song

by William Carlos Williams

Let the snake wait under
his weed
and the writing
be of words, slow and quick, sharp
to strike, quiet to wait,
sleepless.

—through metaphor to reconcile
the people and the stones.
Compose. (No ideas
but in things) Invent!
Saxifrage is my flower that splits
the rocks.

I am trying to do more poetic terms, and
analyze the structure using
the notes we got in class. This was the
poem that Steph and I taught this week.
the poem is very short, divided into two
 stanzas, composed of 6 lines each. There
is no rhyme scheme. The flow of the poem, musically
speaking, is very sticatto
(spelling??). As a reader, I found myself speaking
 in a very short and light manner.
It is because of his line breaks, which provide
 a sort of punctuation. The breaks
between under/weed/writing in the first stanza create
 this kind of sticatto sense,
whichreflects nicely back to the title of
the poem, "Sort of a Song."
The 2 lines of the poem break the mold
 of the first stanza, but they
alone have their own rhythm.Williams broke the
 line at "splits" which
I think  is very cool, because not only
 does the
image of this flower splitting a rock come
 to mind,
but also the actual line is
 broken at the word split.

Steph and I determined that this poem was about a poet, who is
being compared
to a snake, and how he comes
up with different things, and writes them down
quickly as to invent a new idea. These ideas are so
powerful, that they can split someone's mind.
Compose, and invent are used to produce this idea that a poet has
the ability to write something that is completely
brand new, and can be used.

This is a really cool poem!