What is the structure of the poem (quatrains, paragraphs, couplets, tercets, etc.)? Is the poem in a recognizable form, such as sonnet, ode, etc.? Is there a rhyme scheme? If so, what is it? Does the form in any way affect the meaning of the poem? Is there a progression/organizing principle of the ideas/images in the poem (contrasting ideas, chronological order, cause and effect, flashback, etc.)
What is the structure of the poem (quatrains, paragraphs, couplets, tercets, etc.)? Is the poem in a recognizable form, such as sonnet, ode, etc.? Is there a rhyme scheme? If so, what is it? Does the form in any way affect the meaning of the poem? Is there a progression/organizing principle of the ideas/images in the poem (contrasting ideas, chronological order, cause and effect, flashback, etc.)
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