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Original poem reprinted online here: "This is a City of Bridges" by Jeff Dolven Originally read: August 1, 2014 More information about the Poet: Jeff Dolven What I wrote in the beginning, "quatrains xaxa rhyme [scheme]"  There's a focus on a gap.  In the first line, there's the repetition of the title, "This is a city of bridges," but the stanza changes the context and a different focus, "thought the water is mostly fled; / a city of ambitious span and empty bed."  Note that the semi-colon brings in the connection of reinterpretation of the same scene.  "Water has fled" and an "empty bed" state similar visual images, but different tones.  The first is more of the "escape of nature" and the second the "escape of people." However, the speaker doesn't go into the reinterpretations and rather focuses on the visual.  "It makes for a curious skyline:"  Note the usage of "it" in the...