The Walking Poem Summary

The pattern in “The Walking” is a closed form poem with an “aba” pattern then in the last stanza it has an “abaa” pattern This poem has end rhyme that uses the long “O” sound and “AIR” sound in an alternating pattern, demonstrated in, “We think by feeling. What is there to know / I hear my being dance from ear to ear” (4-5). In these lines the use of slant rhyme is also used in line five. This poem is in a nineteen-line villanelle, I concluded this because it has five three line stanzas and ends with a four-line stanza. The repeating lines in this poem are the ones at the end of each stanza, “I learn by going where I have to go” (3); and “I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow” (6). However in the sixth stanza, both lines repeat at the end