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Mouse Night: One of our games
William Stafford
We heard thunder. Nothing great – on high
ground rain began. Who ran through
that rain? I shrank, a fieldmouse, when
the thunder came – under grass with bombs
of water scything stems. My tremendous
father cowered: “Lions rushing make
that sound,” he said: “we'll be brain-washed
for sure if head-size chunks of water hit us.
Duck and cover! It takes a man
to be a mouse this night,” he said.
As it can be seen, the “music” of a poem is
essential part of its meaning. However, this music
can be lost if the reader does not pay close attention
to the form and to each word of each line. The poet is
very careful when he writes his poem, and he uses
many different ways to allow the reader to feel the
music and understand the meaning of his words. One
of the techniques William Stafford used to create this
poem was what we called run-on lines, which is:
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