The Ballad of the White Horse is also considered a Roman Catholic allegory. Chesterton incorporates a significant amount of philosophy into the basic structure of the story. The poem consists of 2,684 lines of English verse. They are divided into stanzas, typically consisting of 4 to 6 lines each. The poem is based on the ballad stanza form, although the poem often departs significantly from it. Types of metrical feet are used more or less freely, although there is often basic repetition in a line. The rhyme scheme varies, often being ABCB or ABCCCB. Prefatory Note Chesterton begins his work with a note (in prose) declaring
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