It's also a rhythmic, even metrical, masterpiece. The first line can be read as an entirely regular iambic hexameter with some very light stresses (on apparitions, and the prepositions of and in). The second line opens on an emphatic stress Petals, trips along with three unstressed syllables, then three lovely hammer blows, wet, black bough.
Sensitive modulation throughout.
[This message has been edited by Mike Slippkauskas (edited February 15, 2008).]
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