Stafford switches from four-line stanzas to a little couplet which gives us a feeling of something missing (reflecting on the loss of the dawn). The end words do not exactly rhyme in the poem instead, Stafford makes the lines tie together and not tie together at the same time. For example, the words don 't exactly rhyme, but they share sounds and, like road and dead (both end in “ad”), killing and belly, (both contain two l’s) essentially appear similar in ways that make an indirect link between the words. Stafford’s use of a subtle false rhyme technique gave the poem an informal tone. Rhyming words would have made the poem to formal, neat, and cheerful which is the exact opposite of death. Death is disorderly, careless, and
Stafford switches from four-line stanzas to a little couplet which gives us a feeling of something missing (reflecting on the loss of the dawn). The end words do not exactly rhyme in the poem instead, Stafford makes the lines tie together and not tie together at the same time. For example, the words don 't exactly rhyme, but they share sounds and, like road and dead (both end in “ad”), killing and belly, (both contain two l’s) essentially appear similar in ways that make an indirect link between the words. Stafford’s use of a subtle false rhyme technique gave the poem an informal tone. Rhyming words would have made the poem to formal, neat, and cheerful which is the exact opposite of death. Death is disorderly, careless, and