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.
Burn Center (poem) those feelings to characterize a narrator or protagonist, not herself. She pushes those feelings onto other character. “Burn Center” is unconventional is the fact that it’s 29 lines of poetry. Olds lacks punctuation so the poem is made up of long sentences. The lines are also uneven and have various lengths. The poem is also just one midlength stanza. Olds also displays enjambment by cutting her lines off in the middle of the sentence, making the reader proceed to the next line to get the rest of the idea or the thought. Burn Center (poem) "Burn Center" is a poem