Hospital Window | Style
Free Verse
“The Hospital Window” is a free verse poem with elements of meter and rhythm dispersed throughout. Dickey’s early poetry—primarily the first three collections, Into the Stone, Drowning With Others, and Helmets—are actually less free than his later work, but still avoid heavy rhyming and overdone alliteration. He was, however, fond of the anapest, or a metrical unit containing two short syllables followed by a long one. One example of this form of meter in “The Hospital Window” is in the first line: “I have just—.” Read the...
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