Between Two Hills
Between Two Hills - form Summary
Free-verse Evening Lull
The poem uses spare free verse and short declarative lines to render a calm evening scene in an unnamed small town. Its plain language and simple cadence create a steady, lullaby-like rhythm that emphasizes communal rest and the ordinary details of dusk. The compact, unrhymed stanzas leave space for mood rather than argument, letting repetition and accumulation of images convey hush and continuity between landscape and human life.
Read Complete AnalysesBetween two hills The old town stands. The houses loom And the roofs and trees And the dusk and the dark, The damp and the dew Are there. The prayers are said And the people rest For sleep is there And the touch of dreams Is over all.
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