A Prayer for My Daughter its "metremes", or rhymical motifs, rather than common metrical devices. The poem also may be read to consist of straightforward iambic verse that relies on common metrical devices such as elision, acephalous lines, promotion, and metrical inversion. Lines 1, 2, 3, 5, and 8 of each stanza are iambic pentameter; lines 4, 6, and 7 are iambic tetrameter. For instance, using traditional principles of scansion, stanza two may be scanned as shown below, where syllables in all caps represent metrical beats, lower-case syllables represent metrical off-beats, the vertical bar represents the termination of a metrical foot, and apostrophes represent elisions.
Man in a Landscape (poetry collection) his bones. It is when he says this, indirectly but without evasion, that he succeeds." Man in a Landscape (poetry collection) Man in a Landscape (1960) is the third poetry collection by Australian author and poet Colin Thiele. It won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1960. The collection consists of 5 sequences of poems, with several others interspersed between the sequences. In his review of the poetry collection in "Westerly" Malcolm Leven wrote: "Mr. Thiele's poems do not rock our ears with motion or swamp our eyes with light, nor do they, at a different level, strike up