The Red Wheelbarrow by W.C. William

After reading the poem The Red Wheelbarrow by W.C. William, I wonder how a simple short-worded poem is considered poetry.  It is not until I read it once again that I was able to comprehend the essence to the poem and see the true beauty of it.
I realized The Red Wheelbarrow is a poem of imagery and each line play off each other.    The imagery depicted are in the description of the colors used in the poem such as “red” for the wheelbarrow; the “glazed” with the rain water; and the “white” chicken.  The image gives a sense of simplicity.  You can consider the objects in the poem, and say that wheelbarrow and the chicken are useful everyday resources.  A county living farmer may view the wheelbarrow, chicken, and rain as a means for survival and a source of income.  Whereas a printer my view them as natural object that transformed/transcend into pure beauty. The redness of the wheelbarrow and the whiteness of the chicken give a soothing contrast of those colors when next to each other. 
Lastly, the form of the poem is interesting; usually the lines in poetry are measured in syllables, but here the lines are measured instead in words. Each stanza has one line with three words and one line with one word. But the three-word lines do not all have the same meter - half have three syllables and half have four.