Read this excerpt from the poem "Lincoln Looked.”Lincoln looked forward and sawa divided house cannot stand.He looked ahead, beyond the brimof his stovepipe hat, and wherethere were many people, he saw one.Lincoln looked up at the cloudsturning in the sky and knew thatthe nation was doing the same thingin time.

The poem is loosely structured: its lines have different lengths and do not follow a clear, regular rhyme or rhythm pattern. It does use repetition, especially the repeated idea of Lincoln looking, as in “Lincoln looked forward,” “He looked ahead,” and “Lincoln looked up.” Therefore, the best choice is “The poem is loosely structured and contains repetition.”

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