Read the excerpt below from “The Ball Poem” by John Berryman and answer the question that follows. What is the boy now, who has lost his ball,What, what is he to do? I saw it goMerrily bouncing, down the street, and thenMerrily over—there it is in the water!No use to say ‘O there are other balls’ Source: Berryman, John. “The Ball Poem.” Collected Poems: 1937 – 1971. Ed. Charles Thornbury. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991. Google Books. Web. 06 June 2011. What is the structure of this poem?
The excerpt does not follow a regular rhyme scheme or a consistent meter, which are features often found in fixed poetic forms. Its lines vary in rhythm and length, so the poem is written in free verse. Blank verse has regular unrhymed meter, while a sonnet and a ballad follow more defined structures.
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