So, dogmatically speaking, it has to be a poem because it goes that way, don't you see!"[1] Critic Marjorie Perloff writes, "on the page, the three little quatrains look alike; they have roughly the same physical shape. It is typography rather than any kind of phonemic recurrence that provides directions for the speaking voice (or for the eye that reads the lines silently) and that teases out the poem's meanings."[1] Additionally, this typographical structure influences any subsequent interpretation on the part of the reader.