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Original poem reprinted online here:  "Snow" by Kenneth Rexroth Originally read: January 11, 2013 More information about the Poet:  Kenneth Rexroth  So there's a certain speed of images that goes on here.  After rereading the poem today, I thought of how to control speed in a poem like for example alliteration and assonance create speed in a poem; furthermore, I feel, the majority of the time, longer sentences create speed.  So would that mean a long sentence with alliteration can be read the fastest? Anyway,  the poem starts out slow through sentence structure and image, "Low clouds hang on the mountain."  The poem could go into a different image for movement sake, but it's the reiteration (note: not repetition) of the image that slows the poem down, "The forest is filled with fog."  So the first few lines focuses on the clouds and the attributes of clouds: dim, invisible, growing.  Clouds are then juxtaposed by birds who take on the emotion...