Oh of course, ultimately there’s no blueprint for poetry, and there shouldn’t be. Like any publicly-shared art, there’s no right or wrong way to do it, it’s just a matter of whether or not it connects with people. The word choice and order of this poem are beautiful, even if I find the substance behind them to be hollow and regressive. But the structure just completely takes me out of it, pretty much from the first line. It’s like a movie with good writing and acting, but terrible pacing and editing, about a pretty stupid story. If everything else was good, I could overlook the stupidity of the plot for the quality of the film as a whole. As is, I’ll be avoiding this director’s future projects.