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I buried my father in my heart.

Now he grows in me, my strange son,
my little root who won’t drink milk,
little pale foot sunk in unheard-of night,
little clock spring newly wet
in the fire, little grape, parent to the future
wine, a son the fruit of his own son,
little father I ransom with my life.

Source: Lee, Li-Young. “Little Father.” Book of My Nights. Rochester: BOA Editions, Ltd., 2001. Poetry Foundation. Web. 25 July 2011.



Which structure is used in this excerpt from the poem “Little Father”?

haiku
free verse
iambic
ode

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"Free Verse", there is no structure throughout the entire poem, that and this is the answer but i have to write twenty characters.

User BalaB
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I'm pretty sure this is free verse, if i'm not mistaken.
There is no real structure or rules, it just goes how it wants.
Hope this helps~!
~{Isle of flightless birds}
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