Most like an arch this marriage
A poem by John Ciardi a true testament to a matrimony. Shown through symbolical prism of architecture it depicts the way marriages work in most precise way. In sixteen lines, the author describes the theme so well, showing us his true mastery. Looking closer at the technical aspect, the poem consists of four quatrains. Being the most widespread type of stanza, it underlines the traditional side of the theme discussed. The enclosed rhyme wraps the middle two lines between the first and the last, and rhyming them by pairs. This makes the reading not as fluent as if it ...