Oya!

In regards to Williams' prefered pattern throughout his later years, especially seen in his "Pictures" collection, Joel Conarroe states: The twelve poems are all composed in a pattern favored during his later years, the unstaggered three-line stanza of free verse (employing the variable foot), in which short lines, often of a word or two, are mixed with those slightly longer. The poems, as if framed, are all similar in shape, eight of them consisting of seven stanzas, the others of eight. Each begins with an upper-case letter, but apart from the exclamatory 'Oya!' in 'The Wedding dance in the Open Air,' there is no other capitalization except in proper names and titles. (568)