The Farm on the Great Plains

The poem “The Farm on the Great Plains” is written by William Stafford. There are seven stanzas with four lines in each stanza making it a quatrain. Euphony is very present in this poem; the lines flow very well. I found a lot of assonance. For example, in the first line 'telephone', "goes", and "cold"; in the sixth line "ringing", "listening", "still"; in the tenth line, "night" and "right" these words contains internal rhyming. There are rhyming couplets in each stanza; however, they are slant rhymes. The way I read this poem was in iambic pentameter ...