Glenn, I wasn’t asking why you chose the form. I said it fails with this poem. But your answer is revealing. Reading the poem I can feel the chosen form being pressed into the narrative. I don’t know about suicide and the Frost poem. Frost is open to many interpretations. But in Stopping by the Woods nothing feels pressured. The form grows from the poem. I think more time and relationship to the poem’s topic, narrative, until you find the right form is a better approach than deciding on the form first.
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