Read the poem “Sea Rose,” by H.D.Rose, harsh rose,marred and with stint of petals,meagre flower, thin,sparse of leaf,more preciousthan a wet rosesingle on a stem? —you are caught in the drift.Stunted, with small leaf,you are flung on the sand,you are liftedin the crisp sandthat drives in the wind.Can the spice-rosedrip such acrid fragrancehardened in a leaf?Which best describes the structure of “Sea Rose”?
The poem uses lines of varying lengths and does not follow a consistent rhyme scheme or meter. Its irregular line breaks and rhythm show that it is written in free verse. It is not made of rhyming couplets, regular iambic pentameter, or the three-line haiku form.
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