Eavan Bolands Anorexic: describe the poems form or structure. Consider stanzas, line length, rhyme, and meter.

There
isn't too much about the form and structure of "Anorexic" which is consistent
throughout the poem, but one feature which is consistent is the stanza length. All of the
stanzas are tercets (stanzas of three lines), except for the final stanza, which is a quatrain
(four lines). Arguably, the short stanzas, especially when combined with the enjambment running
throughout the poem, create a fragmented, blunt tone, echoing the voice of the speaker. The
final stanza being four lines, rather than three, helps to echo the sense of accumulation and
excess implied by the listing within the lines "and breasts / and lips and heat / and sweat
and fat and greed."

In terms of the rhyme scheme, there is some rhyming
in the first two stanzas (the first two lines of stanza one rhyme, as do the last two lines of
stanza two), and there is rhyming again in stanza twelve ("so . . . grow"). In most
stanzas, however, there are no end rhymes. The fact that the poem begins with a rhymingin the
first...