I love the combination of personification and parts of speech. Maybe because I'm an English nerd, but this poem by Adrienne Rich is impeccable.
__________
"Tonight No Poetry Will Serve"
Saw you walking barefoot
taking a long look
at the new moon's eyelid
later spread
sleep-fallen, naked in your dark hair
asleep but not oblivious
of the unslept unsleeping
elsewhere
Tonight I think
no poetry
will serve
Syntax of rendition:
verb pilots the plane
adverb modifies action
verb force-feeds noun
submerges the subject
noun is choking
verb disgraced goes on doing
now diagram the sentence
-Adrienne Rich
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