Analyzing Carolyn Forché's 'The Colonel'

In “The Colonel” by Carolyn Forché, the style is prose with a steady beat or rhythm. The Piece is not poetry because it lacks specific stanzas, meter or verse. The only stylistic motif of the piece that is similar to a poem is its steady beat throughout. “I was asked... on the terrace” is a set of sentences that are all short and rhythmic, but they are all stopped by a period and are grammatically correct the lines just don’t flow like a normal prose would, but it is still following the structure of prose. Another reason why this piece is prose compared to poetry is the sentences are the significant units of the piece not the lines, separating the lines of the piece the mean nothing separately, there is nothing enjambing them. The line “tired