Original poem reprinted online here: "Little Muchness" by Mary Ann Samyn More information about the Poet: Mary Ann Samyn Even after rereading this poem, I feel like I want to tie the couplets together and make them all connect, and in some instances there's some connection between stanzas in the beginning of the poem, but when the poem goes to an end there seems to be a disconnect. I think this might also be a ghazal (image based first line, theoretical second line -- but no name in the last stanza). "Some shouting and the tree came down branch by branch / my not so fast a little late" Past me noted the allusion to the lullaby with the first line. Or at least that's my thought process when I read "tree came down branch by branch." The line, though, could just be someone chopping down a tree with little or no allusion implanted with the first line and the weight should go on the brief second line which utilizes the speaker stating "not s...
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