The Woods At Night Comments

i love this poem's cadence - and its sense of realism.

This poem is a marvel of rhythm and sound effect. Alliteration, assonance, internal and end rhyme are all here, and create a wonderful musicality. For example: stanza 1: The binocular owl, ('binocular owl' and 'long') fastened to a limb like a lantern (limb, like lantern, long, leaves, lip) all night long, and the repitition (which itself 'repeats, repeats, repeats' in last stanza) of the 'oo' 'ee' and 'w' sounds throughout the entire poem. Wonderful.