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
So, we'll go no more a roving thus: He took the lassie in his arms, and to bed he ran,<br> O hooly, hooly wi' me, Sir, ye'll waken our goodman!<br> And we'll go no more a roving<br> Sae late into the night,<br> And we'll gang nae mair a roving, boys,<br> Let the moon shine ne'er sae bright.<br> And we'll gang nae mair a roving.<br> The poem appears as "Go No More A-Roving" on the 2004 Leonard Cohen album, "Dear Heather". It has been recorded by Ariella Uliano on her 2009 album 'A.U. (almost) a Compilation'. It was also recorded by Joan Baez on her 1964 "Joan Baez/5"