Williams' Wheelbarrow

A century ago (in 1923), Dr. William Carlos Williams published his work entitled "The Red Wheelbarrow," which consisted of the following sixteen words:

so much depends

upon

a red wheel

barrow

glazed with rain

water

beside the white

chickens.

In his original publication, he paired the three-word lines with the one-word lines to form couplets. In our online format, the space between line breaks and stanzas (a couplet is a two-line stanza) is exactly the same, and so in order to get a more accurate representation of his work, the words must be attached as an image:

I've rearranged his work and made slight changes to make a haiku, the well-known Japanese form consisting of seventeen total syllables distributed over three lines: five syllables, then seven, then five again. What differences do you perceive?

***** ******* *****

what's in a red wheel

barrow glazed with rain water

saved the white chickens

***** ******* *****