Paterson (poem) caught Williams' attention for its use, with a technical skill that seemed to rival Pound's in "The Cantos", of such diverse and seemingly prosaic materials as notes from a congressional investigation, an X-ray report and a physician's testimony on cross-examination. He wrote to fellow poet Louis Zukofsky, "I've begun to think about poetic form again. So much has to be thought out and written out there before we can have any solid criticism and consequently well-grounded work here." In 1944, Williams read a poem by Byron Vazakas in "Partisan Review" that would help lead him to solutions in form and
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush e'8 d'4. | g'8 g' g' g'4 b'8 | d"4 b'8 g'4 g'8 | a'4 a'8 d'4 d'8 | g'4. g' | \bar "|." } \addlyrics { Here we go round the mul -- b'ry bush, The mul -- b'ry bush, The mul -- b'ry bush. Here we go round the mul -- b'ry bush So ear -- ly in the mor -- ning. }</score> The rhyme was first recorded by James Orchard Halliwell as an English children's game in the mid-19th century. He noted that there was a similar game with the lyrics "Here we go round the bramble