With Strawberries We Filled A Tray Comments

An iambic tetrameter meter usually flows nicely, but this poem flows particularly well; “Along the links beside the sea, Where wave and wind were light and free, ” flows so well rhythmically you could almost rap this poem over a beat. The alliteration works well: “the shadowy sail, silent and grey, stole like a ghost across the bay.” The two word line “and strawberries” provides a nice pause to the smoothly flowing poem.

Wow But none could hear me ask my fee, And none could know what came to be. Can sweethearts all their thirst allay